Author Archives: Campaign Outsider

The War Over ‘War of the Worlds’ – Myth or Math?

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Conventional wisdom holds that Orson Welles’s 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds terrorized an entire nation. Representative sample from the following day: But that’s not really what happened, as Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow chronicled in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A. Brad Schwartz, American Experience, Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles' War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News, C.E. Hooper, Fr. Coughlin, Huey Long, Jefferson Pooley, Jon Stewart, MacMillan, Michael J. Socolow, NPR, Orson Welles, PBS, Radiolab, Slate, Stephen Colbert, The Takeaway, War of the Worlds | 4 Comments

Let Lord Stanley’s Wild Rumpus Begin! (Flames Rise From the Ashes Edition)

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

So the Calgary Flames were down 2-0 in their Western Conference semifinal series v. the Anaheim Ducks when Tuesday night’s hockey game broke out, and it didn’t look especially good for the Flames. In the third period, down 3-2, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anaheim Ducks, Calgary Flames, Johnny Gaudreau, Lord Stanley, Stanley Cup playoffs, Western Conference semifinals | 3 Comments

Wall Street Journal Finally Catches Up with Sneak Adtack

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

From our Where You Been? desk This distressing piece ran in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal Media & Marketing section (web headline: “Don’t Sleep on Content Marketing”). ‘Content Marketing’ Goes to the Next Level Many companies have hired editorial staffers in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged brand content, Casper, content marketing, like Brown on Williamson, Lindsay Kaplan, MediaBistro, Nieman Journalism Lab, Sneak ADtack, Wall Street Journal | 4 Comments

Taking the ‘Mum’ Out of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Mumia Abu-Jamal is the Great American Rorschach Test. Cop killer? Or political prisoner? You tell us. And don’t be surprised if Abu-Jamal himself weighs in, thanks to a new federal court ruling this week. Associated Press report (via the Delaware County Daily Times): … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Committee to Fry Mumia Abu-Jamal, Committee to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal, cop killer, Daniel Faulkner, Deleware County Daily Times, Great American Racial Rorschach Test, John Wetzel, Mumia Abu-Jamal, New York Times, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, political prisoner, U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner | 2 Comments

Let the $10 Billion Rumpus Begin!

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

From our Val-PAC desk The hardworking staff recently trumpeted the estimated $9 billion price tag for the 2016 election cycle, but Bloomberg’s Al Hunt has a slight adjustment. How Record Spending Will Affect 2016 Election The role of money and politics … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Al Hunt, America's Liberty PAC, Barack Obama, Bloomberg, Charles Koch, Conservative Solutions PAC, Dathan Voelter, David Koch, Hillary Clinton, J. Warren Tompkins, Jeb Bush, Jesse Benton, Keep the Promise, Matea Gold, Mitt Romney, Priorities USA Action, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Terry Sullivan, Things Go Better with Koch brothers, Washington Post | 2 Comments

Matt Labash Makes Kim Jong Ill

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff has long been an un(L)abashed fan of Weekly Standard feature writer Matt Labash, and his latest piece makes us even more so. Troublemaker for Tyrants Thor Halvorssen hammers the Kims From the moment his dead-of-night emails, texts, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged David Brooks, Davos for Dissidents, Hugo Chavez, Human Rights Foundation, Ji Seong-ho, Jimmy Wales, Kang Chol-hwan, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong Un, Kin Jong-il, Leopoldo López, Matt Labash, North Korea, Now Action Unity and Human Rights, Oslo freedom Forum, Park Sang-hak, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Sidney Awards, South Korea, The Interview, The Weekly Standard, Thor Halvorssen, Yeon-mi Park | Leave a comment

Triple Overtime? Welcome to the Stanley Cup Playoffs

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Say, that was some barnburner between the Nashville Predators and the Chicago Blackhawks last night, yeah? The hardwatching staff has been a little low on the uptake this Stanley Cup season (we have a new TV setup that we’re not … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Brent Seabrook, Chicago Blackhawks, Nashville Predators, Pekka Rinne, Stanley Cup playoffs | 2 Comments

Let the $9b Rumpus Begin! (Ad Early and Often Edition)

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

The air wars of Dustup 2016™ have gone from zero to :30 in no time flat. So the hardwatching staff is pleased to provide this handy clip ‘n’ save guide to the preliminary rounds, which range from the Presidential Donnybrook to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABC News, Barack Obama, Bill Kristol, Blessing, Bloomberg, Blue Grass State GOP Gubernatorial Slap Fight, Buzzfeed, Conservative American Legacy PAC, Dustup 2016, Kelly Ayotte, Kentuckians for Growth Opportunity and Prosperity, Kentucky GOP gubernatorial primary, Mark Kirk, Matt Bevin, Moms Clean Air Force, NARAL Pro-Choice America, NBC News, Neville Chamberlain, New York magazine, Newt Gingrich, NRDC, Politico, Presidential Donnybrook, R-Great White South, R-Please Don't Confuse Me with Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Richard Burr, Rob Portman, Ron Johnson, Sen. Rob Portman, Ted Cruz, The Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America, The Hill, U.S. Senate Rumpus, Washington Post | 4 Comments

Celebrity Head Transplants (Katie Couric Edition)

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

First in a series from our Wait, What? desk The hardwrinkling staff gets the whole cosmetic surgery thing, especially for those in the media spotlight. But sometimes you get the (non-Botox) feeling that the makeovers have gone too far. Exhibit A: … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged CDC, Katie Couric, Screen for Life, Yahoo! New Face, Yahoo! News | 7 Comments

Airbnb’s Cuba Libre: Room and Coke?

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Now that America and Cuba are on speaking terms again, it’s only natural that U.S. businesses get down to business, Havana-style. An early entrant is Airbnb, which ran this ad in yesterday’s New York Times: Aircba is all the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Airbnb, Aircba, Cuba, Cuba libre, Fidel-ity, Googletron, New York Times, room and coke | 3 Comments