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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
A Gay Old Time
Jason Gay has always been a good read – from his days as media critic for the New York Observer to his current sports gig at the Wall Street Journal. On Monday, he ran this sporting tribute to totally gone … Continue reading
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Tagged Jason Gay, Larry King, LeBron James, New York Observer, Wall Street Journal
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Rose Art Museum Rising?
From our Late to the Party desk: This dispatch from CultureGrrl ran last week in ArtsJournal. MeTube: Rose Art Museum (and its former director) in Recovery Mode CultureGrrl visited the Rose and said this, in part: I dropped in, impromptu, … Continue reading
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Tagged ArtsJournal, CultureGrrl, Dabney Hailey, Regarding Painting, Rose Art Museum, Roy Dawes, Waterways
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The Redemption Unit, II
Previously, on The Redemption Unit: There were 4.3 million people collecting $6 billion in SSI at the time, and all those benefits needed to be “redetermined,” a four-syllable word for cut. SSI claimants – every one of them – had … Continue reading
Hip Hip Replacement!
From Friday’s New York Times: A recently recalled artificial hip made by a unit of Johnson & Johnson, designed to last 15 years or more, is failing worldwide at unusually high rates after just a few years. One of the most … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial hip, Charnley Hip Replacement, Johnson & Johnson, Sammy Davis Jr, The Hip Hip
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BaRorschach Obama
Could someone please tell me who ate whose lunch on this week’s tax cut deal – the White House or the GOP? ‘Cause you can’t tell by looking at the chin-strokerati. Left-listing Eric Alterman wrote this in The Daily Beast: … Continue reading
DP=Deval Patrick, Dukakis Payback
From Friday’s Boston Globe: John Dukakis will help plot film office’s mission Local advertising and entertainment executive John Dukakis has agreed to lead an advisory committee to chart a new mission for the Massachusetts Film Office, and help find a … Continue reading
Cable TV’s Must-Kerry Provisions
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (D-Am I President Yet?) is apparently up to his old tricks. From MediaPost: Kerry Waffles, Retrans Burns Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry was branded a flip-flopper during his 2004 presidential run. Notably, there was his infamous comment … Continue reading
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Tagged Cablevision, FCC, Fox Broadcasting, John Kerry, MediaPost, retransmission fees, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Time Warner
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Something Doesn’t Ad Up About Facebook
Facebook is all the rage these days, what with founder Mark Zuckerberg being Time’s Person of the Year 2010 and the site itself having “changed the way human beings relate to one another on a species-wide scale.” Sure. Even better, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomberg News, Mark Zuckerberg, Person of the Year, Steven Johnson, Time, Twitter, Wall Street Journal
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So You Want To Be A Journalist?
Via The Guardian (and former BU student Dana R.): Sounds accurate to me.
Campaign Outsider 