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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Apparently Michael Bloomberg Did NOT Pay for a NYT Ad Praising Michael Bloomberg
As you splendid readers of this thing might remember, last month the hardworking staff wondered about this full-page ad that ran – twice – in the New York Times. What we wondered, specifically, was whether outgoing New York … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciative New Yorkers, Gawker, Henry Hudson, Michael Bloomberg, New York Times, Snarker
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Our ‘Beat the Press Party’ Bakeoff (One Town, Two Different Places Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight this week provides another episode in our long-running One Town, Two Different Places mediadrama. Boston Herald’s underdog Press Party featured this: On Press Party this week we talk about why the media’s attention was so focused … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Jazeera America, Beat the Press, Bill Kelller, Boston Herald, Emma Keller, Fox News, Fox Newshound, Gabriel Sherman, Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight, Jenny Dell, NESN, Press Party, Red Sox, Roger Ailes, The Guardian, The Loudest Voice in the Room, Wayne's World webcast, WGBH, Will Middlebrooks
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Dead Blogging ‘Prifti: Drawn by Light’ at the Griffin Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled out to Winchester yesterday to catch the David Prifti exhibit at the Griffin Museum and, say, it was swell. (As was our breakfast at the Swanton Street Diner.) From the museum’s website: In an … Continue reading
Has Google Replaced U.S. Postal Stamps in Celebrating Cultural Giants?
Call it the Dawn of the Great Google Doodle Backlash. From today’s Washington Post Outlook section (via Politico Playbook): The case against the Google Doodle When Google honored African American author Zora Neale Hurston with a custom logo — a Google … Continue reading
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Tagged Coca-Cola, Daphne A. Brooks, Doodle, Google, Great Google Doodle Backlash, Harlem Renaissance, Justin Moyers, Los Angeles Times, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, McDonald's, Mohandas Ghandi, Outlook, Politico Playbook, Princeton University, The Root, Time, U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Postal stamps, Washington Post, Zora Neale Hurston
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The Sneak in Review: Native (Advertising) Intelligence
The Reading Room at the Global Worldwide Headquarters of Sneak Adtack is starting to fill up, so the hardtracking staff is offloading these ads ‘n’ ends. Start with this piece from the New York Times: Promoting Its Own Products, a Magazine … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrienne LaFrance, ads 'n' ends, advertorials, Better Business Bureau, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Federal Trade Commission, MediaPost, National Advertising Division, native advertising, New York Times, P.J. Bednarski, Shape, Shape Water Boosters, Sneak ADtack, sponsored content, Talented Goose, The Awl, Water works!
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Ask Dr. Ads: What’s Up with the Adholes at Sports Illustrated?
Well the Doc opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out. Dear Dr. Ads, I was cruising around the Net and happened upon this Sports Illustrated piece – The writer and the puzzle: Richard Ben Cramer couldn’t crack … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Rod, Alex Rodriguez, As Dr. Ads, Longform, Olympic Games, PEDs, Picabo Street, Richard Ben Cramer, S.L. Price, Sports Illustrated
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Gawker Channels Dr. Ads!
Snarknado website Gawker featured this item yesterday: New York Times Doesn’t Know Who Bought Strange Pro-Bloomberg Ad Late last year, print readers of The New York Times discovered a full-page color ad, signed by a group called “Appreciative New Yorkers,” touting … Continue reading
‘Dr. Evil’ of Politics Strikes Again on Minimum Wage
Corporate gunsel Rick Berman, memorably profiled as Dr. Evil on 60 Minutes in 2007, is front-and-center in the minimum wage battle now being, er, waged at the state and federal level. From Tuesday’s New York Times: Fun fact to … Continue reading
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