Author Archives: Campaign Outsider

The Arts Seen in NYC (Joan Miró’s ‘Birth of the World’ Edition)

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town to go a-museuming this past weekend and say, it was swell. Having successfully fought our way down a Friday I-95, navigated the obstacle course from the FDR Drive crosstown … Continue reading →

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WSJ’s Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Amazon/Big Town Edition)

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amazon, Andrew Cuomo, Bill de Blasio, CNBC, Elizabeth Schulze, HQ2, Peggy Noodnik, Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal | 2 Comments

NYT Fills in Subscriber Blanks With Boston Ads for Crosswords

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Axios, Cooking App, Crossword App, digital revenue, Joshua Benton, New York Times, NiemanLab, Sara Fischer | Leave a comment

New York Times Published a Co-bituary of Lee Radziwill

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anna Christina Radziwill, Aristotle Onassis, co-bituary, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lee Radziwill, New York Times, Robert D. McFadden, The Missus | 3 Comments

Bill Belichick Had Dinner Saturday Night with #MarALardass

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged #MarALardass, Bill Belichick, Donald Trump, Grumpy Lobster Boat Captain, Jason Gay, Linda Holliday, Mar-a-Lago, New England Patriots, Politico Playbook, Super Bowl Champions, The Hoodie, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

Dead Blogging ‘Tom Kiefer: El Sueño Americano’ at Fuller Craft

Posted on February 11, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Donna Dodson: Zodiac, Fuller Craft Museum, Tom Kiefer: El Sueño Americano – The American Dream, Uneasy Beauty: Discomfort in Contemporary Adornment | 3 Comments

Latest Penance for U.S. Tobacco Companies: Cig Pack Attacks

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Altria, Big Tobacco, corrective statements, Gladys Kessler, Lorillard, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds | Leave a comment

Boston News Media’s Althea Garrison Transgender Copout

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

Yesterday’s Boston Globe Page One piece said it best. Michael Levinson’s report also addressed the indefatigable elephant in the room. Before serving as a state representative from 1993 to 1995, she was outed as transgender when the Boston Herald got … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Althea Garrison, Boston City Council, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Brook Sutherland, Michael Levenson, transgender | Leave a comment

Dead Blogging ‘TransAtlantic’ at Boston Sculptors Gallery

Posted on January 8, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled downtown this past Friday to cruise the South End art galleries and say, a lot of what we saw was swell. We started at Ars Libri, where the Robert Klein Gallery has mounted a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ars Libri, Boston Sculptors Gallery, David A. Lang, David Prifti, Distant Memories Familiar Phantoms, Flights of Fancy, Jessica Straus, Rice Polak Gallery, Robert Klein Gallery, Samira Alikhanzadeh, TransAtlantic | Leave a comment

Doug Mills Wins the New York Times ‘Year in Pictures’ Bakeoff

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

One of the cherished holiday traditions here at the Global Worldwide Headquarters is the Counting of the Photographers in the New York Times Year in Pictures, tallying up which shutterbugs made it and how many of their photos are featured. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Ferguson, Amal Hassain, Counting of the Photographers, Donald Trump, Doug Mills, Erin Schaff, New York Times, The March for Our Lives, Todd Heisler, Tom Brenner, Tyler Hicks, Year in Pictures, Yemen | 4 Comments