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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Correction o’ the Day (Budweiser Lizard Edition)
From Monday’s New York Times: An obituary on Wednesday about Eileen Moran, a visual effects producer, misstated the name of a character she helped create for a series of Budweiser commercials. It was Louie the Lizard, not Larry the Lizard. Louie says … Continue reading
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Tagged Budweiser, corrections, Eileen Moran, Louie the Lizard, New York Times
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Coincidence o’ the Day (NYT Suck Up To China Edition)
Interesting facing pages in Monday’s New York Times. From Page 8 (a piece that touts the “reform and opening up” of the Chinese economy): From Page 9 (a CCTV 2 ad that touts “China’s Business Leaders of the Year): … Continue reading
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Tagged CCTV 2, Lincoln Motor Company, New York Times, Replica Edition
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Dead Blogging ‘The Zoroastrians Of India’
Yesterday the Missus and I trundled over to Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts to catch Sooni Taraporevala’s Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India at the Sert Gallery. And it was good. From the Sert Gallery’s website: The result of … Continue reading
The End Of Anonymity?
The Wall Street Journal is so serious about covering the explosion in online data tracking, the paper has even outed itself. From the WSJ’s Weekend Edition: They Know What You’re Shopping For ‘You’re looking at the premium package, right?’ Companies today … Continue reading
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Tagged BMW, Dataium, Sneak ADtack, Wall Street Journal, What They Know
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Lunatic Ad o’ the Day (Crazy Pamela Geller Edition)
Pamela Geller is the the anti-Islamist jihada who launched the Ground Zero Mosque rumpus two years ago and this New York subway campaign (which also ran in Chicago and DC) three months ago: Now she’s back with this doozie (via … Continue reading
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Tagged American Freedom Defense Initiative, DC Metro, Ground Zero Mosque, MTA, New York, Pam Geller
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Times Co. Town (Paywall Edition)
As newspaper revenues continue to go down like the Hindenburg, more and more dailies are looking to erect paywalls to corral new cashflow. Exhibit Umpteen: The Washington Post. From David Carr’s post on the New York Times Media Decoder blog (via Politico’s Playbook) … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, David Carr, Donald Graham, Media Decoder, New York Times, paywall, Politico Playbook, Washington Post
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Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Alan Simpson Gangnam Style Edition)
The best thing about Peggy Noonan’s latest Wall Street Journal column is her lede, which references the breakout Gangnam video of budget-cutting bhagwan Alan Simpson (forever after to be known as AlSim): The worst part of Ms. Peggy’s column … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Simpson, fiscal cliff, Ms. Peggy, Peggy Noodnik, Peggy Noonan, The Can Kicks Back, Wall Street Journal
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Let The Fiscal Cliff Rumpus Begin! (Ann Coulter White Flag Edition)
The Fiscal Cliff Bakeoff is officially underway, with TV spots flying from every quarter. Over here, this ad from House of Bush consigliere Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS: Over there, this ad from the AFSCME, SEIU, and NEA unions: … Continue reading
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Tagged AFSCME, Ann Coulter, Crossroads GPS, Fiscal Cliff Bakeoff, Fox News, Karl Rove, NEA, Politico Playbook, Sean Hannity, SEIU
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