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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
WTF Ad o’ the Week (Star Parker Edition)
From our Whiskey Tango Foxtrot desk CURE – the Center for Urban Renewal and Education – has just released a TV spot attacking gun-control advocates (read: Barack Obama) for trying to strip Black Americans of their right to own firearms … Continue reading
Boston Herald Wants To Beat WGBH’s Beat The Press
Our feisty local tabloid has increasingly increased its video production lately (Exhibit A: High Noon), and yesterday it upped the ante with the introduction of the Boston Herald Press Party on Page 2: Copy: And then there was … Continue reading
Globe Retweets From Its Patrick-Third-Term Gaffe
So Gov. Deval Patrick made a joke yesterday about running for a third term and wouldn’t you know some people took him seriously and faster than you can say tweet tweet it was out there on the social media wire. … Continue reading
Here’s How You Handle Sponsored Content
The hardtracking staff has written ad(!) nauseum about how deceptive the new wave of branded content in general and native advertising in particular tends to be. Not so in the case of media maven Jim Romenesko. Sponsored content posts on his blog are no ads in sheep’s clothing. Here’s … Continue reading
Gardner Museum Guard Has Coming-Out Party On CNN
Dumbest Museum Guard Ever Richard Abath got his seven-and-a-half minutes of cable fame last night on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, during which correspondent Randi Kaye delivered a thoroughly over-the-top recap of the Great Gardner Heist. Watch it here. If this … Continue reading
Herald Romes Much Farther Than Globe
It’s a rare day – and therefore a noteworthy one – when the Boston Herald devotes more resources to a big story than the Boston Globe does. Welcome to today’s edition of our feisty local tabloid gone global. Note the … Continue reading
Boston’s Retail History: Bonwit Teller Part Two
In response to our post, Local Dailies Disappear Bonwit Teller from Boston’s Retail History, splendid commenter Rick in Duxbury sent this to the hardreading staff: If memory serves, the thing that really killed Bonwit’s was the boneheaded real estate department employee … Continue reading
Why Aren’t The Boston Dailies Asking About The Gardner Guard?
Both local dailies on Tuesday featured the blockbuster revelation that the FBI knows who stole 13 works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 23 years ago. Boston Globe: FBI says it knows identity of Gardner art thieves Names … Continue reading
Local Dailies Disappear Bonwit Teller From Boston Retail History
There’s been lots of hubbub the last two weeks over Restoration Hardware’s botched opening (Worst. Party. Ever.) in its new home at 234 Berkeley Street. Including yesterday’s Boston Globe front page piece: After packed debut, store at a standstill Restoration Hardware has buzz, … Continue reading
Herald’s Joe Fitz Kisses Phoenix Goodbye
From our Late to the (Going Away) Party desk Last week the Boston Phoenix got its front-page Ave atque Vale from the Boston Globe’s Joseph P. Kahn. (It also got a mournful editorial and this spiffy op-ed by ex-intern Joe Keohane, among other coverage.) The Boston Herald? … Continue reading
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