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NYT: What Do You Wear To The Riot?
From our You Can’t Be Serious desk: New York magazine’s The Cut blog catches the New York Times in an absolute brain freeze. STREET STYLE Youth Quake What do you wear when protest and mayhem rock your world? Reports from … Continue reading
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Tagged Cairo, London, New York, New York Times, Street Style, Tahrir Square, The Cut, Youth Quake
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Right Verizon?
The other day the hardworking staff noted Verizon’s advertising campaign addressing its dustup with 45,000 striking workers. The telecom’s initial ads touted the generous salaries and benefits (read: better than yours) its employees receive; the second wave of ads detail … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, health insurance, pension benefits, striking union employees, Verizon
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Retailers Get with the Program(s)
This fall, major department stores will be offering some exciting new brands: TV and web networks. Via MediaBistro’s PRNewser: The NBC network and Bloomingdale’s have entered into a two-month Fall partnership that will provide branding opportunities for both organizations: Bloomie’s catalogs will feature actors from some … Continue reading
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Tagged Alloy Entertainment, Bloomingdale's, Macy's, MediaBistro, NBC, Prime Suspect, PRNewser, Sneak ADtack, synergy-efficient, The Playboy Club, Variety, Wendy
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Boston: We’re #52!
Tuesday’s New York Times featured a front-page piece on the most dangerous cities for walking, and guess what? Boston/Cambridge/Quincy was least dangerous. Graphic here and here: Wait a minute: Quincy? What the hell does Quincy have to do with Boston and … Continue reading
Campaign Outsider Bookmark Club (pat. pending)
With the chin-strokerati furiously, well, chin-stroking nowadays, the hardworking staff thought it would be a public service to keep track of their predictions. So, Bookmark #1: In his latest Boston Herald column, WTKK squawker Michael Graham predicts that Texas Gov. … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, chin-strokerati, Michael Graham, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, RomneyCare, WTKK
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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Ron ‘The One’ Paul Edition)
Ron Paul (R-No New Nuthin’) has just released his second TV spot, another minute-long mock movie trailer, this time taking on the slick, telegenic, smooth-talking, non-Paulish politicians leading our great nation to perdition. (First spot here.) Via the Daily Caller: … Continue reading
AftershockNow Shock Tactics
The hardworking staff knows a lunatic fringe group when we see one, and the Aftershock Survival Summit folks certainly fit the bill. But when that group takes out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal at well into six … Continue reading
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Tagged Aftershock Survival Summit, lunatic fringe group, Newsmax, rightwingnuts, Wall Street Journal
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Let The Rick Perry-And-Thrust Begin! (Paul Krugman Edition)
When Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R-Pray with Me Now) jumped with both boots into the GOP presidential primary on Saturday, he made it clear that the centerpiece of his campaign would be his job-creation record. Via CBS News: Perry cited … Continue reading
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Tagged 40% of new US jobs, CBS News, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Perrynomics, Rick Perry
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