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Dead Blogging ‘The Zoroastrians Of India’
Yesterday the Missus and I trundled over to Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts to catch Sooni Taraporevala’s Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India at the Sert Gallery. And it was good. From the Sert Gallery’s website: The result of … Continue reading
The End Of Anonymity?
The Wall Street Journal is so serious about covering the explosion in online data tracking, the paper has even outed itself. From the WSJ’s Weekend Edition: They Know What You’re Shopping For ‘You’re looking at the premium package, right?’ Companies today … Continue reading
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Tagged BMW, Dataium, Sneak ADtack, Wall Street Journal, What They Know
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Lunatic Ad o’ the Day (Crazy Pamela Geller Edition)
Pamela Geller is the the anti-Islamist jihada who launched the Ground Zero Mosque rumpus two years ago and this New York subway campaign (which also ran in Chicago and DC) three months ago: Now she’s back with this doozie (via … Continue reading
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Tagged American Freedom Defense Initiative, DC Metro, Ground Zero Mosque, MTA, New York, Pam Geller
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Times Co. Town (Paywall Edition)
As newspaper revenues continue to go down like the Hindenburg, more and more dailies are looking to erect paywalls to corral new cashflow. Exhibit Umpteen: The Washington Post. From David Carr’s post on the New York Times Media Decoder blog (via Politico’s Playbook) … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, David Carr, Donald Graham, Media Decoder, New York Times, paywall, Politico Playbook, Washington Post
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Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Alan Simpson Gangnam Style Edition)
The best thing about Peggy Noonan’s latest Wall Street Journal column is her lede, which references the breakout Gangnam video of budget-cutting bhagwan Alan Simpson (forever after to be known as AlSim): The worst part of Ms. Peggy’s column … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Simpson, fiscal cliff, Ms. Peggy, Peggy Noodnik, Peggy Noonan, The Can Kicks Back, Wall Street Journal
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Let The Fiscal Cliff Rumpus Begin! (Ann Coulter White Flag Edition)
The Fiscal Cliff Bakeoff is officially underway, with TV spots flying from every quarter. Over here, this ad from House of Bush consigliere Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS: Over there, this ad from the AFSCME, SEIU, and NEA unions: … Continue reading
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Tagged AFSCME, Ann Coulter, Crossroads GPS, Fiscal Cliff Bakeoff, Fox News, Karl Rove, NEA, Politico Playbook, Sean Hannity, SEIU
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Names & Facial
Ever since we found out that Mrs. Tom Brady had a Bundchen in the oven, we knew there’d be a race in the news media to announce the arrival of the Littlest Ugg Model. And on the local dailies front, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boring Broadsheet, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Bundchen, Gisele, Names, Namesniks, Tom Brady, Track Gals (without Megan!), Vivian
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For New Yorkers, It’s Good To Live In A Two-Murdoch Town
The Big Town is the Big Top for Rupert Murdoch’s newly minted News Corporation, which owns umpteen newspapers across the globe. Most notable here in the US: the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal, the Goofus and Gallant of … Continue reading
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