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The Big Town Broadsheet Bakeoff
From a Monday New York Times front-page Business piece headlined, “Wall Street Journal Aims to Win Over The Times’s Local Audience:” In an attempt to eat into The [New York] Times’s mass-market audience and lure away some of its luxury … Continue reading
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The great Mariano Rivera for Canali: Is there a classier guy in professional sports? Wethinks not.
No Apology To Mitt Romney?
From a Sunday Boston Globe piece on former governor Mitt Romney headlined: Romney draws a loyal following as book tour hits Ariz. Fans praise his business-minded take on politics Visual: Good news: Romney is in the midst of a national … Continue reading
Mullen The Consequences
From the Sunday Boston Globe takedown of Massachusetts Treasury Secretary Tim Cahill: Cahill awarded the lucrative advertising contract for the Massachusetts Lottery, which he controls, to the Boston ad firm Hill Holliday in 2003, despite a staff recommendation that another … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Hill Holliday, Mullen Advertising, Tim Cahill
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All The News That Fits
Saturday’s New York Times featured not a single full-page ad in its A Section until the last page – a house ad flacking the Times website vs. its Wall Street Journal counterpart. Times ad headline: Looking to reach nearly twice … Continue reading
NYT’s Marina Abramovic Blushathon
The New York Times apparently can’t get past the nudies at MOMA’s current blockbuster, “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present.” (Campaign Outsider’s unblushing review here.) But back to the nudies from the Saturday Times Abramovic Watch: Probably the most talked-about … Continue reading
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Tagged Abramovic Watch, Blushathon, Marina Abramovic, MOMA, New York Times
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Pricey Johns
You tell us: Is the art world out of control or not? From Friday’s New York Times: Planting a Johns ‘Flag’ in a Private Collection Less than two months before Christie’s will be selling one of Jasper Johns’s signature “Flag” paintings, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Flag 1958, Jasper Johns, New York Times, Steven A. Cohen
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Ansell Kiefer
From Friday’s New York Times op-ed page: THE SEASONS | ANSELM KIEFER Before Spring Anselm Kiefer, “Snow Melt in the Odenwald,” 2010, gouache on photographic paper. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery, New York. Text on the work is translated as follows: Snow melt … Continue reading
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Tagged Anselm Kiefer, Before Spring, Gagosian Gallery, New York Times, The Seasons
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New York Times Correction o’ the Day®
This is the best. A 65-year-old correction in Friday’s New York Times. In full: Corrections A caption on March 6, 1945, for a photograph distributed by The Associated Press that became one of the most widely published images from World … Continue reading
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Tagged Associated Press, Bataan Death March, corrections, New York Times
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Boston Herald’s Inside Trick
Given the libel lawsuit filed this week by rock band Boston’s Tom Scholz against the Boston Herald’s Inside Track gals Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa – which the Herald has not covered – is it just a coincidence that on … Continue reading
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