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Boston News Media’s Althea Garrison Transgender Copout

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

Yesterday’s Boston Globe Page One piece said it best. Michael Levinson’s report also addressed the indefatigable elephant in the room. Before serving as a state representative from 1993 to 1995, she was outed as transgender when the Boston Herald got … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Althea Garrison, Boston City Council, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Brook Sutherland, Michael Levenson, transgender | Leave a comment

Dead Blogging ‘TransAtlantic’ at Boston Sculptors Gallery

Posted on January 8, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled downtown this past Friday to cruise the South End art galleries and say, a lot of what we saw was swell. We started at Ars Libri, where the Robert Klein Gallery has mounted a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ars Libri, Boston Sculptors Gallery, David A. Lang, David Prifti, Distant Memories Familiar Phantoms, Flights of Fancy, Jessica Straus, Rice Polak Gallery, Robert Klein Gallery, Samira Alikhanzadeh, TransAtlantic | Leave a comment

Doug Mills Wins the New York Times ‘Year in Pictures’ Bakeoff

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

One of the cherished holiday traditions here at the Global Worldwide Headquarters is the Counting of the Photographers in the New York Times Year in Pictures, tallying up which shutterbugs made it and how many of their photos are featured. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Ferguson, Amal Hassain, Counting of the Photographers, Donald Trump, Doug Mills, Erin Schaff, New York Times, The March for Our Lives, Todd Heisler, Tom Brenner, Tyler Hicks, Year in Pictures, Yemen | 1 Comment

Ave Atque Vale, The (Late, Lamented) Weekly Standard

Posted on December 16, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff has long been a fan (we were a charter subscriber in the mid-90s) – and also a critic – of The Weekly Standard, which officially folded on Friday. For over two decades we’ve found the magazine’s political … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andrew Ferguson, Brian Stelter, Charles Krauthammer, Charm: The Elusive Enchantment, Clarity Media, CNN, Commentary, Jack Shafer, John Podhoretz, Joseph Epstein, Matt Labash, Max Boot, Monika Bauerlein, Morning Media, Mother Jones, New York Timeds, Peter Kadzis, Philip Anschutz, Politico, Politico Playbook, Reliable Sources, Ross Douthat, Ryan McKibben, The Weekly Standard, Washington Examiner, Washington Post | Leave a comment

WSJ Beats Boston Dailies on Bulger Wrongful Death Suit

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured this Zusha Elinson piece about the latest verse in The Ballad of Whitey Bulger. Bulger Was Wary Of Prison Transfer Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger seemed to have good news when he called his attorney … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Billy Bulger, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, calumnist, Hank Brennan, Howie Carr, Howie Carrtoon, Mr. Carrtoon, Shelley Murphy, the Corrupt Midget, Wall Street Journal, Whitey Bulger, Zusha Elinson | Leave a comment

Google Cloud Reigns in New York Times Edvertising Mashup

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

It started out routinely enough with this New York Times Past Tense California special section last month. It’s a fascinating pictorial journey through the Times California archives, but then comes the money (screen)shot on page 2. Okay, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Google Cloud, New York Times, Past Tense, Past Tense California, Sneak ADtack, State of the Cuisinart Marketing, Walter Mosley | Leave a comment

New York Times ‘The Truth’ Campaign Safeguards . . . Cooking?

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

For the past two years the hardworking staff has diligently chronicled the newspaper industry’s Pep Squad for Truth – those preaching-to-the-choir ad campaigns aimed at convincing the American public that real news matters. Chief among the pom-pom crowd has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged New York Times, NYT Cooking, Pep Squad for Truth, The Truth campaign | Leave a comment

New York Public Library Goes ‘Full-Page Bookie’ in NYT

Posted on November 24, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

Any book lover has to love the New York Public Library’s full-page ad in yesterday’s New York Times. Not only that . . . Best of all . . . Sign us up!

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged New York Public Library, New York Times | 1 Comment

New York Times Ventures Into New Adver-Whatever Frontier

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

Over the past several years, the hardworking staff – and our kissin’ cousins at Sneak Adtack – have chronicled the Grey Lady’s opening the kimono to advertorials and edvertorials from marketers hither and yon. Still, we weren’t sure what to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged advertorial, Crush, edvertorial, Generation G, Grey Lady, native advertising, New York Times, Sneak ADtack, Tia | 3 Comments

Civilians Who Run Full-Page Ads in the New York Times (@MaxKingRealty Edition)

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

Yesterday’s New York Times yielded a bumper crop of full-page advocacy ads. There was this ADL ad on page 11. And this ad from a boatload of human-rights and faith-based groups on page 17. But it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ADL, Bisnow Atlanta, Brett M. Kingstone, Jarred Schenke, Max King Realty, New York Times | 4 Comments