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Monthly Archives: July 2013
A Major Acquisition That Will ‘Altar’ MFA
A controversial but historically important artwork has been cleared by a British court to come to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. From The Art Newspaper: Anglican court says Benjamin West altarpiece can go to Boston City of London church to … Continue reading
Hucksters On A Train: Windows Beam Ads To Brain
Airports have facial-recognition systems built into digital advertising screens. Supermarkets have directional audio ads beamed to individual shoppers. And now commuter trains have windows that transmit ads directly into your head. It’s a whole new kind of marketing skullduggery. From MediaBistro’s PRNewser: [N]ext time you … Continue reading
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Tagged BBDO, bone conduction, Germany, holosonics, MediaBistro, PRNewser, Sky Deutschland, Sky Go, Sneak ADtack, The Talking Window, TruMedia
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Ask Dr. Ads: What’s Up With The ‘Heroic Media’ Anti-Abortion Ads?
Well the Doc opened the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out: Dear Dr. Ads, I recently saw this Wall Street Journal ad from an outfit called Heroic Media. The website’s Frequently Asked Questions section says this about the group’s funding: Our … Continue reading
Baby I Can Drive My Carr (Kevin Weeks Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk Boston Herald hack Howie Carr got another spotlight dance with himself out of yesterday’s James “Whitey” Bulger court proceedings. Carr’s column today is largely about the exceedingly odd nature of Bulger’s defense. Whitey defense team falling into a rat trap Whitey … Continue reading
Local Dailies Go For Hot-Button Hat Tricks
The Boston papers play Page One Derby today, with both trumpeting a trio of crime stories. Boston Globe, front page above the fold: Boston Herald Page One . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a … Continue reading
Inspector Lewis – At Last! – Comes To His Senses
From our Late to the (Engagement?) Party desk Well the Missus and I dipped into the DVR last night and watched The Ramblin’ Boy episode of PBS’s Masterpiece Mystery. And finally Robbie Lewis and Oxford ME Laura Hobson – spoiler … Continue reading
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Tagged Inspector Lewis, Laura Hobson, PBS Masterpiece Mystery, Robbie Lewis
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BP = Better Press/Bitter Pills
After years of being a whipping boy for its Deepwater Horizon debacle, British petroleum giant BP is starting to get some love from the news media. Start with this piece in Bloomberg Businessweek headlined Spillapalooza: How BP Got Screwed in … Continue reading
Let The Wild Obamacare Rumpus Begin! (Fact Checker Edition)
As the hardworking staff just noted, there are dueling TV spots out now in the battle of the budget-busting Obamacare. One is for the Obama front Organizing for Action, the other for the Koch brothers front Americans for Prosperity. Glenn … Continue reading
Let The Wild Obamacare Rumpus Begin!
The air war over Obamacare has officially begun, with TV spots pro and con popping up all over the place. Via Monday’s MSNBC First Read: The fight to define health care’s implementation: After the Supreme Court upheld the health-care law … Continue reading
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Tagged Allbritton, Americans for Prosperity, Columbus, First Read, MSNBC, New York Times, ObamaCare, Ohio, Organizing for America, Virginia, WBNS, WJLN
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