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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Herald Goes Double ‘Dutch’
The Boston Herald devotes two pages today to remembrances of the great Elmore Leonard, who died yesterday at age 87. Start with the Associated Press obituary, which begins “He was the master of his genre, the Dickens of Detroit, the … Continue reading
Flash Flood Of Data Mining At The Weather Channel
Your bad hair day is good news for The Weather Channel. From the Wall Street Journal: Weather Channel Now Also Forecasts What You’ll Buy Company’s Data Helps Fine-Tune When and Where Advertisers Should Place Spots The Weather Channel knows the chance … Continue reading
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Tagged data mining, Sneak ADtack, The Weather Channel, Wall Street Journal
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Dr. Dre’s WSJ Two-Step
From our Ad/Ed Pas de Deux desk Monday’s Wall Street Journal featured this piece that reads like a press release for Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. Beats Electronics Looks to Scratch HTC The maker of the popular Beats by Dr. Dre … Continue reading
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Tagged #Newbeats, Beats by Dr. Dre, Beats Electronics, BeatsbyDre.com, Dr. Dre, HTC, New York Post, the Googletron, The Guardian, The Missus, Wall Street Journal
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Al Jazeera America Has Bad News For The Boston Herald
The hardreading staff gets four newspapers delivered to the Global Worldwide Headquarters every day: Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Times, Wall Street Journal. Guess which one didn’t have an ad promoting today’s launch of Al Jazeera America, the Qatar-based news … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Hopper Redux’ At The Cape Ann Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Gloucester on Saturday to catch Hopper Redux, Photographs by Gail Albert Halaban at the Cape Ann Museum, and say, it was swell. The exhibit “[offers] a fresh look at the Gloucester houses made … Continue reading
WTF: Now Kmart’s Into Racism?
From our Whiskey Tango Foxtrot desk The hardwincing staff has already noted that JCPenny has been accused of running back-to-school ads that promote bullying, while Sears has a lingerie line that allegedly borders on bondage. (Neither of which, by the … Continue reading
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Brown Is The New Block(head)
Of all the nudnik 2016 presidential wannabes (Peter King! Martin O’Malley! Come on down!), Scott Brown (R-Fox News) ranks among the most delusional. But you’d never know that from reading the Boston Herald. Today’s Page One: Inside, the feisty local tabloid … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Parallel Universes Edition)
This week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight saw the local media hall monitors go their separate ways in the topics they chose. Start, as usual, with the Underdog Boston Herald Press Party. Its Wayne’s World webcast began with host Joe Battenfeld saying this: … Continue reading
When Did Gail Huff Change Her Name?
Are we experiencing a Hillary Rodham – uh, make that Clinton – moment here in Massachusetts? From the redoubtable David Bernstein’s Boston Magazine blog: No politicians—no politician—goes to Iowa by accident. Former US Senator Scott Brown is not just going to … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston magazine, David Bernstein, Des Moines Register, Gail Brown, Gail Huff, Iowa, Scott Brown, State Fair
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Campaign Outsider 