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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Fine Art, Well Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched a new ad campaign with the theme, “MY MET. MY WEEKEND” that features celebrities from Hugh Jackman to Marc Jacobs highlighting their Met favorites (Village Voice Q&A with Met director Thomas Campbell here). … Continue reading
Driving Mr. Yogi
If Yogi Berra is the son Casey Stengel never had (quote-off here), Ron Guidry is the son Yogi now has. First, there was this Harvey Araton piece in the New York Times last year: For Berra and Guidry, It Happens … Continue reading
Hey – Does This Violate The “People’s Pledge”?
It’s been quiet on the People’s Pledge front since Sen. Scott Brown (R-Walking Around Money) ponied up $1000 earlier this month because a group supporting him ran some Google ads. (His challenger Elizabeth Warren (D-Google This) directed the money to an … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Oil, DSCC, Etch A Sketch, Morning Score, People's Pledge, Politico, Scott Brown
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Why The NYT Is A Great Newspaper (They Kill Horses, Don’t They? Edition)
From Sunday’s New York Times: Mangled Horses, Maimed Jockeys The new economics of horse racing are making an always-dangerous game even more so, as lax oversight puts animal and rider at risk. Nut grafs: On average, 24 horses die each … Continue reading
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Tagged Buzz Machine, horse deaths, Jeff Jarvis, New York Times, The gatekeeepers, Walt Bogdanich
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The Weekly Standard Pimps Out Its Cover (II)
Because the hardworking staff is a noodnik, we failed to note in a previous post about the Weekly Standard’s leasing its March 26 cover to the National Federation of Independent Business, that the NFIB is lead plaintiff in the lawsuit (National … Continue reading
The Weekly Standard Pimps Out Its Cover
Imagine the hardworking staff’s surprise when the March 26 edition of The Weekly Standard arrived at the Global Worldwide Headquarters and we saw this: (Apologies for the amateur cellphoto.) That’s the first of a four-page ad wrapper for the National Federation … Continue reading
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Tagged National Federation of Independent Business, New York Times, NFIB, ObamaCare, Weekly Standard
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Straight, No Chaser: WSJ Serves Up “The Real Mad Men”
From the Wall Street Journal’s Visualizer: “The Real Mad Men” (Running Press), by former advertising executive Andrew Cracknell, tells the story of the real-life ad business from the late 1950s through the 1960s—during the so-called Creative Revolution. The book includes … Continue reading
Crush Rush: Boston Gets Anti-Limbaugh Radio Blitz
Via Mediaite: Liberal Group Spends $100,000 On Anti-Limbaugh Radio Campaign The latest development in the backlash to Rush Limbaugh‘s comments about Sandra Fluke? A radio campaign. Media Matters is running two advertisements in eight cities — and spending at least $100,000 on … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston, Media Mattters, Mediaite, Rush Limbaugh, Washington Times
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Campaign Outsider 