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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
WSJ Beats Boston Dailies on Bulger Wrongful Death Suit
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured this Zusha Elinson piece about the latest verse in The Ballad of Whitey Bulger. Bulger Was Wary Of Prison Transfer Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger seemed to have good news when he called his attorney … Continue reading
Google Cloud Reigns in New York Times Edvertising Mashup
It started out routinely enough with this New York Times Past Tense California special section last month. It’s a fascinating pictorial journey through the Times California archives, but then comes the money (screen)shot on page 2. Okay, … Continue reading
New York Times ‘The Truth’ Campaign Safeguards . . . Cooking?
For the past two years the hardworking staff has diligently chronicled the newspaper industry’s Pep Squad for Truth – those preaching-to-the-choir ad campaigns aimed at convincing the American public that real news matters. Chief among the pom-pom crowd has been … Continue reading
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Tagged New York Times, NYT Cooking, Pep Squad for Truth, The Truth campaign
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New York Public Library Goes ‘Full-Page Bookie’ in NYT
Any book lover has to love the New York Public Library’s full-page ad in yesterday’s New York Times. Not only that . . . Best of all . . . Sign us up!
New York Times Ventures Into New Adver-Whatever Frontier
Over the past several years, the hardworking staff – and our kissin’ cousins at Sneak Adtack – have chronicled the Grey Lady’s opening the kimono to advertorials and edvertorials from marketers hither and yon. Still, we weren’t sure what to … Continue reading
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Tagged advertorial, Crush, edvertorial, Generation G, Grey Lady, native advertising, New York Times, Sneak ADtack, Tia
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Civilians Who Run Full-Page Ads in the New York Times (@MaxKingRealty Edition)
Yesterday’s New York Times yielded a bumper crop of full-page advocacy ads. There was this ADL ad on page 11. And this ad from a boatload of human-rights and faith-based groups on page 17. But it was … Continue reading
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Tagged ADL, Bisnow Atlanta, Brett M. Kingstone, Jarred Schenke, Max King Realty, New York Times
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‘Lest We Forget’/’Yankees Suck!’
The other day I took the Green Line downtown to meet the Missus. At Kenmore, a horde of Red Sox fans boarded the trolley, fresh off the Duck Boat Parade celebrating the fourth Boston Red Sox World Series Championship of … Continue reading
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Tagged Lest We Forget, Luigi Toscano, Red Sox Duck Boat Parade, Yankees suck
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2018 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox: 25 Players, 1 Cab
And they loved their driver. Alex Cora led the Olde Towne Team not only to its best regular-season record ever, but also to its fourth 21st Century World Series Championship. A totally joyful ride. One discordant note: Steve Pearce’s MVP … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Cora, Boston Red Sox, David Price, Made Yankee Fan in Boston, Steve Pearce, World's Serious
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When the Missus and I Visited Hearst Castle 4 Times in 1 Day
Patricia Leigh Brown’s New York Times piece the other day about the Hearst Castle in San Simeon was interesting in its own right. Taking a Dip at Xanadu Guests swim at Hearst Castle, where Hollywood luminaries one cavorted. SAN SIMEON, … Continue reading
Campaign Outsider 
Ave Atque Vale, The (Late, Lamented) Weekly Standard
The hardworking staff has long been a fan (we were a charter subscriber in the mid-90s) – and also a critic – of The Weekly Standard, which officially folded on Friday. For over two decades we’ve found the magazine’s political … Continue reading →