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Boston Herald: Death To Taxes!
The feisty local tabloid continues its anti-tax jihad today from the very first page (via The Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages): Inside the Herald puts a price tag on the tax hikes proposed by Gov. Deval Patrick (D-One Foot Out the Door) … Continue reading
Mike Wallace’s 1958 Dali-ance
From Wall Street Journal theater critic Terry Teachout’s invaluable About Last Night blog at ArtsJournal: First, marvel at the Parliament cigarette plug Wallace delivers. Then, marvelous Salvador Dali. The interview is two ships passing in the TV night: Wallace is … Continue reading
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Tagged About Last Night, ArtsJournal, Midnight in Paris, Mike Wallace, Salvador Dali, Terry Teachout, WSJ.
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Product Placemint ($4.75 Billion Edition)
Advertisers to media content producers: Stick it in! From MediaPost’s Center for Media Research: Product Placement An Emerging Brand Marketing Solution According to the PQ Media Global Product Placement Spending Forecast 2012-2016, US marketers continue to up their investment in product placement … Continue reading
Jury’s Out On Carmen Ortiz
Not-quite-matching her & her columns in the local papers on the topic of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and her (over?)zealous prosecution of Aaron Swartz. Start with Margery Eagan’s column in the Boston Herald: Outrage over zealous feds Statement too little, too late … Continue reading
NHL = No Herald League
From our Whiskey Tango Foxtrot desk The recently ended NHL lockout was like the Iran-Iraq war – you wished somehow both sides could lose. And in a way they both did, so that’s a good thing. Now comes the task of winning … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Clive Owen, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, lockout, NHL, Three Olives
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Contest-Generated Ad Goes Full Circle At NYT
When is a print ad both a story and an advertisement? When the New York Times makes it so! From Wednesday’s Times Business section: On Print’s Turf, Google Wins for Creativity THE winner of a contest to encourage creativity in … Continue reading
Has The New York Times Moved To No-Jump Street?
Several years ago the Wall Street Journal instituted a no-jumps policy, as noted quite bitterly by the Columbia Journalism Review: The WSJ and the Limits of a “No Jumps” Policy Dumbing down and devaluing The Wall Street Journal We’ve talked quite a … Continue reading
Boston Herald Jumps The Shark (Taxachusetts Edition)
The front pages of today’s local dailies almost – but don’t quite – say it all in their coverage of a looming tax hike in Massachusetts. The Boston Globe’s Page One (via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages) appears measured and slightly … Continue reading
Poynter Goes Over To The Dark Side On Stealth Marketing
The hardtracking staff is acutely aware that stealth marketing ranks somewhere below Ghana on the average American’s radar screen. Still, you’d think the media hall monitors of this world would give it serious consideration. WRONG!!! Exhibit Umpteen: This piece by Andrew Beaujon … Continue reading
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Tagged Buzzfeed, Ghana, Jonah Peretti, Nevada, Poynter, Reddit, Sneak ADtack, sponsored posts
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