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Good Grey Lady Opens the Kimono: NYT Must Monetimes Itself
Yesterday’s New York Times reported that today’s New York Times Company is all about show me the monetize! The New York Times Company Outlines a Strategy to Double Its Digital Revenue The New York Times Company released a strategy memo … Continue reading
Norman Mailer Had Hillary Clinton Down Cold 20 Years Ago
Yesterday the dustupping staff happened upon Norman Mailer’s essay Clinton and Dole: The War of the Oxymorons, which ran in the cuppa coffee George magazine, and came across this digression about Hillary Rodham Clinton at the 1996 Democratic National Convention … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘My Fair Lady’ at the Lyric Stage
Well the Missus and I trundled downtown last night to see the Lyric Stage production of My Fair Lady and say, it was . . . fabulous. (Bet you thought I was gonna say “loverly.” Well, it was that too.) … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Jay Lerner, Alfred P. Doolittle, Amanda Dehnert, Christopher Chew, Colonel Pickering, Eliza Doolittle, Frederick Loewe, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Higgins, J.T. Turner, Jennifer Ellis, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Melissa Errico, My Fair Lady, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playbill, Pygmalion, Remo Airaldi, Richard Chamberlain, Terry Teachout, TKTS booth, Wall Street Journal
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The Times (New York and Financial) They Are A Changin’
Stealth marketing proceeds apace in swallowing up mainstream media. Exhibit Umpteen, via Digiday’s Jessica Davies. The Financial Times readies paid posts for advertisers The Financial Times is revamping its approach to branded content, with the aim of giving advertisers more … Continue reading
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Tagged #FT, Advertising Week, Darwin, Digiday, Dominic Good, Financial Times, Fiona Carter, Jessica Davies, Karl Greenberg, Margaret Sullivan, Marketing Daily, MediaPost, New York Times, Paul Caine, Public Editor, Santander, Sneak ADtack, Squared, Tara Walpert Levy, Zurich Insurance
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Presidential Ad Flashback (1952 Campaign Song Edition)
First in a series from our Dustup 2016 NostADgia® desk The first presidential campaign television commercials ran in 1952 (the Eisenhower/Stevenson I bakeoff.) At the time, apparently, the inaugural political admakers thought that borrowing from the entertainment world might be … Continue reading
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Tagged 1952 Presidential Campaign, Adlai Stevenson, Dustup 2016, Dustup 2016 NostADgia desk, Dwight Eisenhower, hole in his shoe, I Like Ike, I Love the Gov, Irving Berlin, th man who saved the world from Hitler, University of Wisconsin Advertising Project, Walt Disney Studios
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Dead Blogging ‘Broken Glass’ at New Rep Theatre
Well the Missus and I trundled out to Watertown last night to catch Broken Glass (through September 27) at the New Repertory Theatre and say, it was . . . heavy. Then again, Arthur Miller can get that way. The New … Continue reading
‘South Park’ Invades Donald Trump’s South Parts
From our To Know Trump desk Full disclosure: The dustupping staff is not a regular viewer of Comedy Central’s South Park, but we’ve always admired the show’s ability to not give a damn what anyone thinks about it. And never … Continue reading
Conflict of Interest at Politico Massachusetts Playbook (II)
Well the hardworking staff wandered into a bit of a quagmire yesterday when we looked at the confluence of a Massachusetts Playbook ad and some Massachusetts Playbook editorial content that both seemed to have the same objective: to boost the expansion … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Baker, Dan Currie, Dinah Washington, Erik Wemple, Great Schools Massachusetts, Katie Lannan, Lauren Dezenski, Massachusetts Playbook, Mike Allen, Politico, Politico Rain Man, Sneak ADtack, State House News Service, State of the Cuisinart Marketing, Twitter
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Conflict of Interest at Politico’s Massachusetts Playbook?
Well the hardworking staff was just sitting here in the Global Worldwide Headquarters minding our own business, when this popped up on the Twitters. Of course we immediately asked Dan Currie if he has any connection to the … Continue reading
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