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Monthly Archives: December 2013
Sign o’ the Time: Everything for Sale at Newsweekly
The Boston Sunday Globe featured this full-page ad on A12 yesterday. Two things, for starters: 1) The whole Time Dealer of the Year Awards looks suspiciously like a pay-for-play scheme. 2) There is no this: At least not outside the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Fortune, Gallup Poll, Honesty and Ethical Standards in Professsions, Joe Nocera, Massachusetts Dealer of the Year, People, Ray Ciccolo, Sneak ADtack, Sports Illustrated, Time, Time Dealers of the Year Awards, Time Inc., Time-industrial marketing complex, Village Automotive Group
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Sergey Ponomarev Wins NYT ‘Year In Pictures’ Bakeoff
Yesterday’s New York Times Year in Pictures featured the usual array of fabulous photos from the pst year. And Sergey Ponomarev took honors as the shooter with the most submissions (in the print edition) – four. Among them: Caption: “A … Continue reading
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Tagged Doug Mills, Goran Tomasevic, Hamid Khatib, New York Times, NYT Year in Pictures, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks
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Did Michael Bloomberg Run Another NYT Ad Praising Michael Bloomberg?
The hardworking staff – and Dr. Ads – have been on this question like Brown on Williamson: Who are the Appreciative New Yorkers who’ve run this ad in the New York Times – twice? Since we first asked, those Appreciative … Continue reading
Hack Attack! Salon’s Brutal Takedown of Bigfoot Journalists
Salon’s Alex Pareene has assembled a Top Ten Hackorama of Political Journalists and it’s a corker (tip o’ the pixel to AlterNet). Pareene blowtorches some of the most notable members of the chinstrokerati, “[channeling] each media figure’s ‘unique’ voice — … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Pareene, AlterNet, Benny Johnson, Bob Woodward, Business Insider, Buzzfeed, chinstrokerati, David Brooks, Erick Erickson, Game Change, George Will, Henry Blodget, John Heilemann, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Halperin, Maureen Dowd, Mike Allen, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Politico, RedState, Richard Cohen, Salon, The New Yorker, Thomas Friedman, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
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Ask Dr. Ads: Got A Top Ten For 2013?
Well the Doc opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out. Dear Dr. Ads, I’ve noticed that a lot of media outlets have picked their Top Whatever Ads of 2013 in recent days. There’s Adweek’s Mostapalooza featuring The Ten Most Sexist … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 Best Ads of 2013, 10 Most Epic TV Promos of 2013, Adweek, Ask Dr. Ads, Dove Real Beauty Sketches, Geico Hump Day, Guinness Basketball, RAM Farmer, Ten Most Sexist Ads of 2013, Ten Most Watched Ads on YouTube in 2013, Ten Most-Viral Ads of 2013, Top 5 ads of 2013, Topapalooza, USA Today
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NYT Mikhail Kalashnikov Obit Omits Most Important Fact
Mikhail Kalashnikov, father of the AK-47, is dead at the age of 94. From the New York Times obituary by C. J. Chivers: His role in the rifle’s creation, and the attention showered on him by the Kremlin’s propaganda machine, … Continue reading
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Tagged biography of the AK-47, C.J. Chivers, Kremlin, Mikhail Kalashnikov, New York Times, The Gun
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Lousy Turnout For Midnight Mass At St. Mary’s In Brookline Village
The hardworking staff, which is Jewish by attraction, has lived next door to St. Mary of the Assumption in Brookline Village for 25 years, during which we’ve observed – yes – 25 Christmas Eve Midnight Masses. (For decades our mother, … Continue reading
Did Michael Bloomberg Pay For A NYT Ad Praising Michael Bloomberg?
Saturday’s New York Times featured this full-page hagiographic ad about outgoing New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, courtesy of “Appreciative New Yorkers.” Turns out Appreciative New Yorkers don’t really exist, as the irrepressible Dr. Ads documented here. So who paid for … Continue reading
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