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What Can the Koch Bros. Do for (Scott) Brown?
Americans for Prosperity, the big-bucks boyos bankrolled by billionaires David and Charles Koch, is in for a dollar already this election cycle. The independent expenditure group, which spent over $36 million on federal elections in 2012, has just launched a … Continue reading
Rhonda Roland Shearer Responds
Yesterday the hardtracking staff at Sneak Adtack wrote this about some awards handed out by author and publisher Rhonda Roland Shearer’s current iMediaEthics.org website, and in the process mentioned her 2002 dustup with William Langewiesche, author ofAmerican Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center. Here’s Ms. Shearer’s … Continue reading
Ask Dr. Ads: What’s Up with the E-Cig Emails?
Well the Doc opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out. Dear Dr. Ads, I checked my email yesterday and discovered this: Hello friend Merry christmas to you in advance. Thanks for your time. Do you know … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask Dr. Ads, Christy Zhong, christyzch, e-cigs, e-pipe K1000, electronic cigarettes, Here & Now, Johnny Smoke, NPR, YACYA
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Apparently ‘Ethical Native Advertising’ Is Not an Oxymoron
The hardtracking staff at Sneak Adtack rarely has anything good to say about native advertising, those ads in sheep’s clothing that trick out marketing material as editorial content. But here’s the exception that proves the rule. From FishbowlNY: Daily News Secretary … Continue reading
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Tagged advertorials, American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trace Center, Ethical Acts in Journalism, FishbowlNY, iMediaEthics.org, Joe Hagan, Miranda Walker, native advertising, New York Daily News, New York Observer, Rhonda Roland Shearer, Sneak ADtack, The Atlantic, William Langewiesche
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Sign o’ the Time: Everything for Sale at Newsweekly
The Boston Sunday Globe featured this full-page ad on A12 yesterday. Two things, for starters: 1) The whole Time Dealer of the Year Awards looks suspiciously like a pay-for-play scheme. 2) There is no this: At least not outside the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Fortune, Gallup Poll, Honesty and Ethical Standards in Professsions, Joe Nocera, Massachusetts Dealer of the Year, People, Ray Ciccolo, Sneak ADtack, Sports Illustrated, Time, Time Dealers of the Year Awards, Time Inc., Time-industrial marketing complex, Village Automotive Group
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Sergey Ponomarev Wins NYT ‘Year In Pictures’ Bakeoff
Yesterday’s New York Times Year in Pictures featured the usual array of fabulous photos from the pst year. And Sergey Ponomarev took honors as the shooter with the most submissions (in the print edition) – four. Among them: Caption: “A … Continue reading
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Tagged Doug Mills, Goran Tomasevic, Hamid Khatib, New York Times, NYT Year in Pictures, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks
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Did Michael Bloomberg Run Another NYT Ad Praising Michael Bloomberg?
The hardworking staff – and Dr. Ads – have been on this question like Brown on Williamson: Who are the Appreciative New Yorkers who’ve run this ad in the New York Times – twice? Since we first asked, those Appreciative … Continue reading
Hack Attack! Salon’s Brutal Takedown of Bigfoot Journalists
Salon’s Alex Pareene has assembled a Top Ten Hackorama of Political Journalists and it’s a corker (tip o’ the pixel to AlterNet). Pareene blowtorches some of the most notable members of the chinstrokerati, “[channeling] each media figure’s ‘unique’ voice — … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Pareene, AlterNet, Benny Johnson, Bob Woodward, Business Insider, Buzzfeed, chinstrokerati, David Brooks, Erick Erickson, Game Change, George Will, Henry Blodget, John Heilemann, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Halperin, Maureen Dowd, Mike Allen, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Politico, RedState, Richard Cohen, Salon, The New Yorker, Thomas Friedman, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
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Ask Dr. Ads: Got A Top Ten For 2013?
Well the Doc opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out. Dear Dr. Ads, I’ve noticed that a lot of media outlets have picked their Top Whatever Ads of 2013 in recent days. There’s Adweek’s Mostapalooza featuring The Ten Most Sexist … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 Best Ads of 2013, 10 Most Epic TV Promos of 2013, Adweek, Ask Dr. Ads, Dove Real Beauty Sketches, Geico Hump Day, Guinness Basketball, RAM Farmer, Ten Most Sexist Ads of 2013, Ten Most Watched Ads on YouTube in 2013, Ten Most-Viral Ads of 2013, Top 5 ads of 2013, Topapalooza, USA Today
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