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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
The Nude York Times (‘An American in Paris’ Edition)
From our Grey Lady pearl-clutching desk The hardblushing staff has long chronicled the growing willingness of the New York Times to bare all in the name of art – or commerce – in its advertising. Representative samples include this ulp-skirt ad … Continue reading
Amazon Delivers News Packages to Compliant Media Outlets
Call it Prime-ing the news pump. In the runup to today’s annual shareholder meeting, Amazon has tried to disinfect its COVID-battered image with a video produced in the form of a news report and distributed to local TV stations around … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Courier, COVID-19, New York Times, Prime-ing the news pump, propagambit, Todd Walker
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GoFundMe Won’t Give Funds to Boston North End Bookstore
No question that fundraising platforms like GoFundMe have done a world of good all over the world. Exhibit Umpteen (via the New York Daily News): Tom Moore, known better as “Captain Tom,” will turn 100 later this month. To celebrate, … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Boston's North End, Captain Tom, Claire Kirch, GoF--kMe, GoFixIt, GoFundMe, I Am Books, New York Daily News, NHS Charities, Nicola Orichuia, Tom Moore
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New York Times Has a ‘Manifesto’ for Boston’s MFA
The other day the New York Times ran a big takeout by art critic Holland Cotter on what major U.S. museums should be doing nowadays with their time and money. For Big Museums, It’s Time to Change As the Metropolitan … Continue reading
NYT’s Marie KONDO-19 Puff Piece Should’ve Been 86ed
Let’s stipulate that the New York Times has done a terrific job of covering the coronavirus crisis in its news and opinion pages. But did we really need this Like a Boss feature about kiss-it-goodbye queen Marie Kondo in yesterday’s Business section? … Continue reading
How Corporate Gunsel Rick Berman Bit One Watchdog Group
Actually, the headscratching staff has no idea how megabucks lobbyist Rick Berman – who sets up fog-machine front groups for the fast-food industry, the tobacco industry, the liquor industry, and any industry fighting minimum-wage increases – managed to hijack the … Continue reading
Fast Food Industry’s Sneak Adtack on Plant-Based Meat
The hardtsking staff has noted on numerous occasions the antics of Rick Berman, corporate America’s go-to gunsel for subverting labor unions, public-health advocates, and consumer, safety, animal welfare, and environmental groups. (Helpful Rachel Maddow interview with Berman.) Here’s the first graf … Continue reading
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Tagged Berman Exposed, CBS 60 Minutes, Center for Consumer Freedom, Center for Media and Democracy, Center for Union Facts, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CleanFoodFacts.com, CREW, Dr. Evil, plant-based meat, Rachel Maddow, Rick Berman, SourceWatch
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Dead Blogging ‘Flora in Winter’ at Worcester Art Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled out to the Worcester Art Museum yesterday to catch Flora in Winter: Epic Bloom and say, it was swell – and smelled great too! One of the region’s most anticipated events of the year, … Continue reading
U.S. Trusts Donald Trump Over Religious Leaders, News Media
(With apologies to Herman Melville) Whenever the hardworking staff finds itself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in our soul; whenever we find ourselves involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear … Continue reading
