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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
De Bait
The hardworking staff at Campaign Journal swung by WBZ-TV tonight for the inaugural 2009 Boston mayoral debate. Throughout the hourlong bakeoff, WBZ’s Jon Keller did a good job of what was essentially herding cats and one Big Dog. Regardless, the … Continue reading
Time Magazine’s Ted K.O.
The cover of Time’s Ted Kennedy Commemorative Issue features a photo that made him look dead while he was still alive. No surprise, the photographer was the uni-named Platon, who also embalmed John McCain on a Time cover during last year’s … Continue reading
The Boston Globe’s Richard Egan Problem
The suicide of Richard Egan, co-founder of technology giant EMC Corp., may be understandable given his terminal illness, but the Boston Globe’s coverage of it is entirely befuddling. Initially, the Globe missed – or ignored – the actual cause of … Continue reading
Ad o’ the Day©
Mike Allen’s Playbook at Politico.com has been a leader in online political-digest promotion, teaming up with companies such as Starbucks and Qualcomm in a variety of marketing initiatives. (See: Politico’s series of political-thumbsucker panel discussions at Starbucks locations across D.C.) … Continue reading
Crayonpedia
Wikipedia, which is to reference materials what Amy Winehouse is to singing gigs, is about to introduce color-coding to its three million entries. According to a report at Wired.com: Starting this fall, you’ll have a new reason to trust the … Continue reading
Ad o’ the Day®
Interesting to see who ran memorial ads for Ted Kennedy. The Boston Globe house ad last week and Sunday’s Massachusetts Hospital Association ad (“One man can make all the difference”) make sense, but what about last week’s Lockheed Martin ad … Continue reading
Not to Get Technical About It . . .
The Sunday Boston Globe piece summarizing summer movies featured this subhed: Even in the silly season you can learn a lot from what clicked, what stiffed, and what surprised I thought the expression was “get /got stiffed.” Paging Jan Freeman, paging … Continue reading
Second Shot
From Sunday’s Boston Globe: Richard J. Egan, the billionaire entrepreneur who cofounded data storage provider EMC Corp. and served as US ambassador to Ireland, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Friday, according to a law enforcement officer with knowledge of … Continue reading
