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Monthly Archives: February 2019
WSJ’s Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Amazon/Big Town Edition)
From our Peggy Noodnik desk Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan filed a totally clueless piece in yesterday’s edition about Amazon’s folding like origami in the face of predictable opposition to its proposed headquarters in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Andrew Cuomo, Bill de Blasio, CNBC, Elizabeth Schulze, HQ2, Peggy Noodnik, Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
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NYT Fills in Subscriber Blanks With Boston Ads for Crosswords
The New York Times has done two remarkable things over the past five years: 1) shifted from an advertising-driven revenue model to a subscription-based one; and 2) shifted from media outlet largely reliant on print revenues to a majority-digital company. … Continue reading
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Tagged Axios, Cooking App, Crossword App, digital revenue, Joshua Benton, New York Times, NiemanLab, Sara Fischer
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New York Times Published a Co-bituary of Lee Radziwill
Not to say that this has never happened before, but Sunday was the first time we’d ever seen if (tip o’ the pixel to The Missus). Robert D. McFadden’s full-page sendoff of Lee Radziwill in Sunday’s New York Times started out … Continue reading
Bill Belichick Had Dinner Saturday Night with #MarALardass
Forget the upcoming rumpus over who among the New England Patriots will attend a White House celebration of their latest Super Bowl Championship. Grumpy Lobster Boat Captain Bill Belichick, as Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay memorably dubbed him, has … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Tom Kiefer: El Sueño Americano’ at Fuller Craft
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Fuller Craft Museum Saturday to catch Tom Kiefer: El Sueño Americano – The American Dream (through July 28) and say, it was . . . heartbreaking. This powerful body of work features the … Continue reading
Latest Penance for U.S. Tobacco Companies: Cig Pack Attacks
As the hardworking staff previously noted, U.S. tobacco companies have been engaged in a federally mandated campaign of self-flagellation for the past year. [I]n 2006 Federal District Court Judge Gladys Kessler ruled that the tobacco companies had deceived the American … Continue reading