Monthly Archives: February 2015

How Many Millennials Actually Watch Jon Stewart?

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Conventional wisdom holds that Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show on Viacom’s Comedy Central is so valuable because it’s a magnet for millennials, the magic 18-29 demographic that marketers lust after. From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal piece about “growing concerns on Wall Street that … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American Horror Story, Archer, Bill Carter, Brian Williams, Comedy Central, Ethan Epstein, First Draft, Hollywood Reporter, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Jon Stewart, Louis, millennials, New York Times, Pew Research Center, Scott Pelley, State of the News Media, The Daily Show, The Weekly Standard, Viacom, Wall Street Journal | 4 Comments

An Invitation? After FOUR Months? To Ello With That!

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well-o-well: Ello is officially scraping the bottom of the barrel. As the hardworking staff has plaintively noted, we were hoping for a smile from the Prom-Queen-Turned-Mean-Girl of social media last fall and got . . . a whole lot of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ello, Facebook, Gopal Sathe, Lucian Fohr, Mean Girl of Social Media, Mike Pearl, MySpace, NDTV Gadgets, Prom Queen of Social Media, Tumbler, Vice | 3 Comments

NYT Gets Drop on Boston Globe Re: Ted K Institute Opening

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate is about to open in the wake of a family feud that has gone largely unnoted in the news media lately, but was all the rage two years ago. Regardless, yesterday’s New … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, Edward M. Kennedy Jr., New York Times, Robin Pogrebin, Victoria Reggie Kennedy | 1 Comment

WSJ Piece Has 20-20 Heinz Sight

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff is a longtime fanboy of the great W.C. Heinz – a superb WWII war correspondent and perhaps the greatest American sportswriter of the 20th Century (not to mention the co-author of M*A*S*H). (Our WGBH Heinz obit here.) Now comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alex Belth, Bill Littlefield, Bronx Banter, Death of a Racehorse, Ernest Hemingway, Gay Talese, M*A*S*H, Nathan Ward, Only a Game, Richard Hooker, The Professional, The Top of His Game, W.C. Heinz, Wall Street Journal, When We Were One | Leave a comment

Jill Stein to Run for President on Groan Party Ticket

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Dr. Jill Stein, the woman who took the green out of the Green Party in 2002, wants another shot at the presidency of the United States. From her press release yesterday: Dr. Jill Stein Announces Formation of Exploratory Committee For … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barbara Johnson, Big Love Election, Carla Howell, Clean Elections funding, David Weigel, Dr. Jill Stein, five-and-dime Ralph Nader, Gary Johnson, Green Party, Groan Party, HBO, Jewish World Review, Mitt Romney, National Press Club, Salon, Seth Gitell, Shannon O'Brien, Slate, TruthOut, uselectionatlas.org, Warren Tolman | Leave a comment

Quote o’ the Day (George McGovern Hearts Louise Day Hicks Edition)

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the hardworking staff was doing some homework today when we came across this exchange between Hunter S. Thompson and his editor in the 1973 Rolling Stone piece, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail in ’72: HST: [T]here was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1974 presidential race, Ed Hanrahan, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Fred Hampton, George McGovern, Hunter S. Thompson, Joe Moakley, Larry O'Brien, Louise Day Hicks, Rolling Stone | 4 Comments

Dead Blogging ‘Bedlam’s Saint Joan’ at Central Square Theater

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled over to Cambridge yesterday to catch the Underground Railway Theater production of Bedlam’s Saint Joan and say, it was swell. For starters, the cast was flat out fabulous. The actors who were … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andrus Nichols, Bedlam's Saint Joan, Central Square Theater, Edmund Lewis, Eric Tucker, George Bernard Shaw, Tom O'Keefe, Underground Railway Theater | Leave a comment