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Campaign Outsider Book Club™ Selection

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

From time to time the hardworking staff actually manages to read a book, so it just made sense to launch the Campaign Outsider Book Club. This week’s/month’s/who knows selection is: Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 novel. From the Google Books … Continue reading →

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Coincidence? We Think Not.

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Here’s what the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider is wondering: What are the odds that both Obamas would be featured in unauthorized advertisements on the same day? Exhibit A: Michelle Obama in this “Fur-Free and Fabulous!” ad from People for … Continue reading →

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Dead Blogging the ‘GBH Classical Radio Rumpus, Part 2

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Grace notes from Tuesday night’s future-of-classical-music-in-Boston hoedown (all statistics via WGBH general manager John Voci): • Classical audience for WGBH: 120,000; for WCRB: 340,000 • WGBH classical audience: 71% are 55 or older; WGBH news audience: 1o-15 years younger • … Continue reading →

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Dead Blogging the ‘GBH Classical Radio Rumpus

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Tuesday evening The Boston Musical Intelligencer presented a panel discussion – “What Can We Do for Classical Music Radio in Boston?” – at the Old South Church in Copley Square. The moderator: William M. Bulger, former Massachusetts Senate President and … Continue reading →

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It’s Good to Live in a Three-Newspaper Town

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Open up the New York Times Tuesday and here’s what tops page A11: For Cape Cod Wind Farm, New Hurdle Is Spiritual Julia Cumes/Associated Press Two Massachusetts Indian tribes have objected to the Cape Wind project, saying it would block … Continue reading →

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Fox in the Henhouse

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Nice front-page New York Times piece Monday about the Fox/Time Warner Cable rumpus over retransmission fees (see here and here), which seems to have been settled by – wait for it – the two sides splitting the difference. The Times, … Continue reading →

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Who’s Got Rabbit Ears Now?

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

One side dish served up by the Time Warner Cable/Fox rumpus in New York is the possibility that broadcast networks will go cable. The lure of turning a broadcast network into a cable network,complete with advertising revenues and subscribers’ fees, … Continue reading →

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Jingle All the Way

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Headline in Saturday’s Boston Globe Business section: Classic jingle gets a tuneup Having all but faded, catchy songs are calling consumers once again True to its subject, the piece featured a number of catchy lines, but the best came from … Continue reading →

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Peggy Noodnik

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

(This one’s for Charlie.) How in the world does someone write an entire column about leaders and institutions that “forget the mission” during the past ten years and never once mention the name George W. Bush? Ask Peggy Noonan. Her … Continue reading →

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From Our Late to the Party Bureau

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Happy New Year! [Your hats, horns, and hangovers go here.]

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