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White House Historical Association Spanks Hardworking Staff
As you splendid readers might remember, yesterday the hardworking staff posted the first of what we hope will be an ongoing series: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Ads in the New York Times. It read, in part: The New York Times is … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015 White House Christmas Ornament, Boston Globe, Calvin Coolidge, Capital, Edward R. Murrow award recipient, Harry Truman, History Channel, Lara M. Kline, National Christmas Tree Lighting, New York Times, Vice President for Marketing and Communications, White House Historical Association
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Ads in the New York Times
First in what we hope will be a long-running series The New York Times is repository for all manner of inexplicable advertising (see our Civilians Who Run Full-Page Ads in the New York Times series for representative samples), so the … Continue reading
How Many Millennials Actually Watch Jon Stewart?
Conventional wisdom holds that Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show on Viacom’s Comedy Central is so valuable because it’s a magnet for millennials, the magic 18-29 demographic that marketers lust after. From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal piece about “growing concerns on Wall Street that … Continue reading
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Tagged American Horror Story, Archer, Bill Carter, Brian Williams, Comedy Central, Ethan Epstein, First Draft, Hollywood Reporter, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Jon Stewart, Louis, millennials, New York Times, Pew Research Center, Scott Pelley, State of the News Media, The Daily Show, The Weekly Standard, Viacom, Wall Street Journal
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An Invitation? After FOUR Months? To Ello With That!
Well-o-well: Ello is officially scraping the bottom of the barrel. As the hardworking staff has plaintively noted, we were hoping for a smile from the Prom-Queen-Turned-Mean-Girl of social media last fall and got . . . a whole lot of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ello, Facebook, Gopal Sathe, Lucian Fohr, Mean Girl of Social Media, Mike Pearl, MySpace, NDTV Gadgets, Prom Queen of Social Media, Tumbler, Vice
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NYT Gets Drop on Boston Globe Re: Ted K Institute Opening
The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate is about to open in the wake of a family feud that has gone largely unnoted in the news media lately, but was all the rage two years ago. Regardless, yesterday’s New … Continue reading
WSJ Piece Has 20-20 Heinz Sight
The hardworking staff is a longtime fanboy of the great W.C. Heinz – a superb WWII war correspondent and perhaps the greatest American sportswriter of the 20th Century (not to mention the co-author of M*A*S*H). (Our WGBH Heinz obit here.) Now comes … Continue reading
Quote o’ the Day (George McGovern Hearts Louise Day Hicks Edition)
Well the hardworking staff was doing some homework today when we came across this exchange between Hunter S. Thompson and his editor in the 1973 Rolling Stone piece, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail in ’72: HST: [T]here was a … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Bedlam’s Saint Joan’ at Central Square Theater
Well the Missus and I trundled over to Cambridge yesterday to catch the Underground Railway Theater production of Bedlam’s Saint Joan and say, it was swell. For starters, the cast was flat out fabulous. The actors who were … Continue reading
The Ruins of Paul Rudolph’s Architecture
The hardworking staff has long admired the architectural work of Paul Rudolph, especially his Blue Cross Blue Shield building at 133 Federal Street in Boston. (Our 2008 WGBH commentary here.) But not everyone does. So we read with interest in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 133 Federal Street, After You Left/They Took It Apart, Art & Architecture Building, Blue Cros Blue Shield building, Chris Mottalini, Martin Filler, New York Review of Books, Paul Rudolph, Renzo Piano, Steve Belkin, The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, Timothy M. Rohan, Tommy's Tower, Tuskegee University Chapel, Yale University
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