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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
Boston Globe Slowbituaries (Letters From The Editor Edition)
In response to the hardworking staff’s recent posts about the Boston Globe’s slowbituaries (see here and here), Globe obituary editor Bryan Marquard has graciously sent us two thorough and thoughtful emails. Email #1: Mr. Carroll, In answer to your questions, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Bryan Marquard, Ed Corsetti, Slowbituaries, Stephen Bankuti
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New “Facebook Exchange” Ad Scheme Changes A Lot
Mark (DataSuckah) Zuckerberg has a new way of selling you to the highest bidder: by following you around the web (which he’s be doing for awhile) and – for the first time – selling that data to marketers. From BostInno: Facebook … Continue reading
SNAP! Survivors Network Of Those Abused By Priests Goes Full-Page NYT
Ad in yesterday’s New York Times: Clearly, Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) believes you need to spend money to make money. But you have to wonder what the return on this six-figure investment will be. The hardchecking … Continue reading
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Tagged New York Times ad, SNAP, Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
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The Wall Street Journal Finally Catches Up With Campaign Outsider (Rhyme-onyms Edition)
Two-and-a-half-years ago, the hardworking staff posted this: Rhyme-onyms Posted on March 29, 2010 First: I yield to no man in my respect and affection for my students at Boston University. Second: During my five years as a mass communication professor … Continue reading
Dear WGBH: This. Totally. Blows. (II)
So the hardworking staff repaired to the Global Worldwide Headquarters ’round midnight to do a little ruminating and construing, and – resignedly – flipped the radio on to WCRB (since WGBH radio has abandoned jazz for a bunch of yack … Continue reading
Jason Gay Has Strawberries And Cream With Bud Collins
Venerable tennis savant Bud Collins couldn’t be in the house for Sunday’s gentlemen’s finals at the All England Club (ruptured quad tendon), so estimable Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay was in Collins’s Brookline house to view it with him. … Continue reading
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Tagged All England Club, Brookline, Bud Collins, Jason Gay, strawberries and cream, Wall Street Journal, Wimbledon
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There’ll Always Be An America (Heart Attack Grill Edition)
With apologies to the New Yorker’s There’ll Always Be an England series From Monday’s Wall Street Journal: Order Up a Heart Attack New York can have its own (kosher) version of a heart attack on bread, a U.S. judge has … Continue reading
Spacebook: 13 Million US Facebookers Don’t Use Privacy Controls
A Consumer Reports investigation reveals that a fair chunk of Facebookniks are pretty casual about protecting their privacy. Via the Boston Globe: Nearly 13 million US Facebook users do not use, or are not aware of, the site’s privacy controls, according to a … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Consumer Reports, Facebook, Mark (DataSuckah) Zuckerberg, Sneak ADtack
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