Author Archives: Campaign Outsider

Dead Blogging ‘It’s Alive!’ at the Peabody Essex Museum

Posted on August 17, 2017

Well the Missus and I trundled up to Salem yesterday to catch It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection (through November 26) at PEM and say, it was scary good. Kirk Hammett, best known as the guitarist … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged After Dracula: The 1930s Horror Film, Alsion Peirse, It’s Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection, Karloff the Uncanny, Kirk Hammett, Metallica, Ocean Liners: Glamour Speed and Style, Peabody Essex Museum, PEM | Leave a comment

Is ‘Trump TV’ Really All That Different From ‘Obama TV’?

Posted on August 8, 2017

There’s been a fair amount of pearl clutching the past few days over the “Real News” videos that TrumpWorld has just started cranking out. The debut edition appeared on Donald Trump’s Facebook page last week and featured First (or Second) Daughter-in-Law … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged "Real News", ABC News, CNN, Eric Trump, Evan McMullin, Jeff Greenfield, Kayleigh McEnany, Lara Trump, Obama TV, Politico, Reliable Sources, Republican National Committee, RoboBlondes for Trump, Trump Nation, Trump TV, West Wing Week, White House Easter Egg Roll | Leave a comment

For the Last Time, People: It’s Bullwinkle T. (Not J.) Moose

Posted on July 30, 2017

Dear splendid readers, If the hardworking staff has told you once, we’ve told you one time that the name of Rocket J. Squirrel’s sidekick is Bullwinkle T. Moose. The death of the great June Foray, who voiced Rocky, has resurfaced … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adventures of Dudley Do-Right, Aesop and Son, Associated Press, Bill Scott, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Bullwinkle J. Moose, Bullwinkle T. Moose, Bullwinkle The Moose, First Lady of Animated Voicing, Fractured Fairy Tales, Jay Ward, June Foray, New York Times, Peabody's Improbable History, Rocket J. Squirrel, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Rocky and His Friends, The Bullwinkle Show, Wikipedia | 10 Comments

NYT Editing Slashback: ‘Lawyers . . . Views Their Client’ Edition

Posted on July 27, 2017

As the hardworking staff has noted on several occasions, the New York Times has over the past few months jettisoned its “low-value line editing” and replaced it with “bespoke editing.” Cashiered Times public editor Liz Spayd wrote earlier this year that … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bespoke editing, David W. Dunlap, digital first, Journalism That Stands Apart, Karron Skog, Liz Spayd, Martin Shkreli, New York Times, Pharma Bro, subscription first | Leave a comment

Round Midnight at the Global Worldwide Headquarters (Cole Porter Edition)

Posted on July 26, 2017

Latest from our (very) occasional series The Great American Songbook is filled with splendid renditions of Cole Porter’s work (see especially Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra), but for our money Bobby Short is the best of the bunch. So the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bobby Short, Bobby Short Loves Cole Porter, Cole Porter, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Great American Songbook | Leave a comment

The Arts Seen in Philly (Tim & Julia’s Excellent Wedding Edition)

Posted on July 25, 2017

Well the Missus and I trundled down to Philadelphia this past weekend for the wedding of our nephew Tim and, say, it was swellegant. On the endless drive down there (hey, Friday . . . summer . . . 95 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Albert Barnes, Brett Miller, Bush-Holley House Museum, Cezanne, Childe Hassam, City of Brotherly Love, Cos Cob Art Colony, El Greco, Ernest Lawson, Free Library of Philadelphia, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, J. Alden Weir, Jed Perl, John Henry Twachtman, Lance Esplund, Matisse, New Republic, New York Times, Paul Philippe Cret, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Picasso, Renior, Roberta Smith, Rodin Museum, The Barnes Foundation, The Weekly Standard, Theodore Robinson | 2 Comments

The Grey Lady Moneti$es Yet Another of Her Journalists

Posted on July 20, 2017

As the hardworking staff has diligently chronicled, the New York Times is turning itself into a full-service, well, service. Travel agency, tchotchke shop, conference center – you name it, the Times will do it. For money, of course. Now comes the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Bryant, Columbia Journalism Review, Corner Office, Corner Office Master Class, Grey Lady, Jeff Gerth, New York Times, Sneak ADtack, Times Journeys, Times Store | 6 Comments

Shut Up: Ring Lardner Explained

Posted on July 18, 2017

From the first time I read a Ring Lardner short story (“Haircut,” I believe, like a billion other American high schoolers), I’ve been a huge fan of his work. So much so that back in the ’70s and ’80s I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A World's Serious, A.J. Liebling, Andrew Ferguson, Dave Barry, Donald Barthelme, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, George Saunders, Haircut, James Thurber, Joseph Mitchell, Li’l Abner, Own Your Own Home, Pogo, Ring Lardner, Ron Rapoport, The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner, The Portable Ring Lardner, The Savvy Rube, The Weekly Standard, The Young Immigrunts | 3 Comments

Seats Still Available for NYT’s Worldwind Global Journey!

Posted on July 15, 2017

In journalism nowadays, there’s sell out, and then there’s sold out. The New York Times’s Around the World by Private Jet: Cultures in Transformation might be the former, but it’s apparently not the latter. Here’s how the Times Journeys site describes … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Abercrombie & Kent, Andrew Seaman, Around the World by Private Jet: Cultures in Transformation, New York Times, Paul Farhi, PBS NewsHour, Reuters, schmooze cruise, Society of Professional Journalists, The Weekly Standard, Times Journeys, Washington Post | Leave a comment

The Grey Lady Opens the Kimono All the Way

Posted on July 10, 2017

As the hard tracking staff at Sneak Adtack has dutifully noted, the New York Times is increasingly blurring the line between advertising and editorial. Especially prevalent are the Russian nesting ads the Times has developed – advertising in the print … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andrew Seaman, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., Campaign Outsider, Charles Duhigg, Columbia Journalism Review, Dean Baquet, Elisabeth Bumiller, Grey Lady, Half Moon Bay, Jeff Gerth, native advertising, New Work Summit, New York Times, New York Times Conferences, Nicholas Kristof, NYT Live, Paul Farhi, Ray Dalio, Reuters, Russian nesting ads, shenadigans, Society of Professional Journalists, State of the Cuisinart, T Brand Studio, Times Journeys, Times Store, Washington Post | 4 Comments