Monthly Archives: January 2018

Sacklers Buy More ‘Adulgences’ for Triggering the Opioid Crisis

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardtsking staff has previously noted, there’s ample evidence that the fabulously wealthy Sackler family, which unleashed OxyContin on an unsuspecting American public, played a key role in the country’s current opioid crisis. And yet . . . Their … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged adulgences, Christopher Glazek, Esquire, indulgences, Nan Goldin, New York Times, Oxycontin, Protestant Reformation, Purdue Pharma, Sackler family | Leave a comment

Strange Adfellows for Net Neutrality: AT&T and . . . Burger King?

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

As the rumpus over the fate of net neutrality continues, it’s not just 21 states and the District of Columbia pushing back against the FCC decision to neuter neutrality. It’s also advertisers. Exhibit AT&T: This full-page ad that’s been running … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AT&T, Burger King, Deven Coldewey, Facebook, Fernando Machado, Gizmodo, Google, Internet Bill of Rights, Karlene Lukovitz, MediaPost, net neutrality, New York Times, Rhett Jones, Sunlight Foundation, TechCrunch, Title II, Washington Post | Leave a comment

Donald Trump’s Hooded Father Got Busted at a 1927 Klan Riot

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

From our Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree desk As the world wonders whether the president of the United Staes is a racist, the hardworking staff was reminded of Adam Hochschild’s piece in the New York Review of Books last … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1927, Adam Hochschild, Donald Trump, Felix Harcourt, Fred Trump, Ku Klux Klan, Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s, Linda Gordon, Mike Pearl, New York Review of Books, New York Times, snopes.com, The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition, Trump racist, Vice | Leave a comment

WSJ and NYT Agree: John Lithgow Totally Gets Ring Lardner

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

For years now, the hardworking staff has expressed not fulsome (which means “effusive, excessive, or insincere praise”) but full-throated admiration for the work of Ring Lardner, who is either a minor major 20th century American writer or a major minor 20th … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged “How to Write Short Stories—With Samples”, Haircut, Jesse Green, John Lithgow, New York Times, P.G. Wodehouse, Ring Lardner, Stories by Heart, Terry Teachout, the Big Town, Uncle Fred Flits By, Wall Street Journal | 3 Comments

We Time’s-Upped Lena Dunham Way Before The Sisters Did

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

Lena (Bad News) Dunham opened the family-sized can of worms when she posted this on Instagram. That led to this rebuttal, as chronicled by Paper’s Beatrice Hazlehurst. TIME’S UP SAYS LENA DUNHAM WAS NOT PART OF THE MOVEMENT Reese Witherspoon, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged America Ferrera, Amy Poehler, Beatrice Hazlehurst, Brie Larson, Campaign Outsider, Emma Stone, Girls, James Wolcott, Lena Dunham, like Brown on Williamson, Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, New York, Paper, Rashida Jones, Reese Witherspoon, Rosario Dawson, Tessa Thompson, The Cut, Thor: Ragnarok, Time's Up, Tracy Ellis Ross, Vanity Fair | Leave a comment

NYT to Run New ‘Truth Has a Voice’ Ad During Golden Globes

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

The New York Times is continuing its year-long Truth campaign with this spot on Sunday’s Golden Globes broadcast, spotlighting its coverage of sexual harassers from Weinstein to O’Reilly to dozens more. According to Ad Age reporter Ann-Christine Diaz, “[the] … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Academy Awards, Ad Age, Ann-Christine Diaz, Bill O'Reilly, Golden Globes, Harvey Weinstein, New York Times, Truth campaign | 4 Comments

WSJ Print Advertising Touts WSJ-Produced Native Advertising

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

From the Russian Nesting Ads desk at Sneak Adtack This week the Wall Street Journal started running tag-team ads in its print edition that direct readers to digital ads created by the paper’s in-house native advertising shop. This quarter-page ad, for … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Axios, Cole Haan, Fitch Group, ICSC, International Council of Shopping Centers, J Crew, Lands' End, Neiman Marcus, New York Times, Russian nesting ads, Scott Galloway, Sears, Sneak ADtack, State of the Cuisinart Marketing, Talbots, The Four, The Retail Implosion, Wall Street Journal, WSJ Custom Studios, WSJ. | Leave a comment

Time’s Up for Lena Dunham in the Ranks of the Sisterhood

Posted on January 2, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

Harvey Weinstein Fallout, Exhibit Umpteen: A group of high-profile show business women have formed a group called Time’s Up, which describes itself as “a unified call for change from women in entertainment for women everywhere.” New York Times culture reporter … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged America Ferrera, Cara Buckley, Eva Longoria, Harvey Weinstein Fallout, James Wolcott, Lena Dunham, New York Times, Nina L. Shaw, Reese Witherspoon, Shonda Rhimes, Time's Up, Times Replica Edition, Tina Tchen, Vanity Fair | 7 Comments