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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Ford Mustang Drives NBC’s ‘The Blacklist’
Editor’s note: This post really should have run on our kissing’ cousin, Sneak Adtack, but the hardtracking site seems to be experiencing technical difficulties. So . . . Gird your loins, splendid readers: We’ve apparently been cast as extras in … Continue reading
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Tagged #UnleashTomKeen, 50 Shades of Pay, Ford Mustang, MediaPost, Mustang GT, NBC, NBC Universal, Ryan Eggold, Team Detroit, The Blacklist, Tom Keen
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Michael Reagan Milks the Old Man Like a Cash Cow
Well the hardworking staff opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out: And etc. So, pony up for the Reagan Ranch and get a swell calendar. Year in pictures: You might … Continue reading
The War Over ‘War of the Worlds’ – Myth or Math?
Conventional wisdom holds that Orson Welles’s 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds terrorized an entire nation. Representative sample from the following day: But that’s not really what happened, as Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow chronicled in … Continue reading
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Tagged A. Brad Schwartz, American Experience, Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles' War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News, C.E. Hooper, Fr. Coughlin, Huey Long, Jefferson Pooley, Jon Stewart, MacMillan, Michael J. Socolow, NPR, Orson Welles, PBS, Radiolab, Slate, Stephen Colbert, The Takeaway, War of the Worlds
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Let Lord Stanley’s Wild Rumpus Begin! (Flames Rise From the Ashes Edition)
So the Calgary Flames were down 2-0 in their Western Conference semifinal series v. the Anaheim Ducks when Tuesday night’s hockey game broke out, and it didn’t look especially good for the Flames. In the third period, down 3-2, the … Continue reading
Wall Street Journal Finally Catches Up with Sneak Adtack
From our Where You Been? desk This distressing piece ran in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal Media & Marketing section (web headline: “Don’t Sleep on Content Marketing”). ‘Content Marketing’ Goes to the Next Level Many companies have hired editorial staffers in … Continue reading