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When a Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés (‘Uphill Lift’ Edition)
From our annual That’s Just Sad desk As the hardworking staff wends its way through this veil – sorry, vale – of tears, we’ve felt obliged to keep track of the mangled phrases employed by our differently worded brethren, who go … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC News, Adam Rippon, Axios, Axios AM, Cheeto-in-Chief, Chris Christie, David Smith, Donald Trump, Emily Sullivan, Fox News, Jonathan Swan, Joshua Partlow, Kim Jong Un, Laura Ingraham, LeBron James, Maggie Haberman, Mike Allen, Moon Jae-in, Morning Mediawire, New York magazine, Nick Corasaniti, NPR, Olivia Nuzzi, Panmunjom, Politico Nerdcast, Politico Playbook, Powerhouse Politics, Poynter, roboblonde, Scott Moir, shut up and dribble, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Singapore, Tessa Virtue, Washington Post
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Student ‘Social Influencers’ Earn an F in Disclosure
From our kissin’ cousins at Sneak Adtack College students have always been natural-born marketers. Among their friends, they toss off more winners and losers than a race course tout. But increasingly, they’re touting for dollars, as Claire Ballentine’s piece noted the … Continue reading
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Tagged 5-Hour Energy, Alana Clark, Apple TV, AT&T, Claire Ballentine, Donna Wertalik, Elizabeth Gabriel, Federal Trade Commission, Gary Sanchez, gone over like the metric system, New York Times, New York Yankees, Noah Lamfers, Pamplin College of Business, Riddle & Bloom, Samsung Galaxy, Sneak ADtack, Victoria's Secret Pink, Virginia Tech
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Ayanna Pressley’s Campaign Makes It in New York, New York
The New York Times took a beating two months ago for whiffing on the defenestration of 10-term incumbent (and potential future House Speaker) Rep. Joe Crowley by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York’s 14th Congressional district. Apparently, the Grey Lady has resolved … Continue reading
NYT Uses Its Journalists Offline, Then Abuses Them Online
As the hardworking staff noted yesterday, the New York Times is increasingly turning its journalists into arm candy for revenue-enhancing commercial ventures, from Times Journey duty to high-powered busine$$ forums. Meanwhile, the Times has stripped its homepage of their bylines. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandra Bruell, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., Athens Democracy Forum, Dean Baquet, Elisabeth Bumiller, Joe Kahn, Maureen Dowd, Meredith Kopit Levien, Michael Calderone, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Op-It Girl, Paul Farhi, Politico Morning Media, Richard Deitsch, Scott Heller, Times Journeys, Wall Street Journal, Walter Shapiro, Washington Post, Wesley Lowery
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Is the New York Times Pimping Out Its Major Journalists?
As our kissin’ cousins at Sneak Adtack noted the other day, the New York Times has been using its journalists as arm candy at a rapidly accelerating pace. The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi pointed out last year that Times Journeys excursions … Continue reading
Recycling My 17-Year-Old Boston Globe Piece On . . . Recycling
Back in 1991, when curbside recycling was still in its infancy, I wrote a Boston Globe Magazine piece with the headline, “I’m Recycling As Fast As I Can (Label Removed).” It wound up with this headline instead. And etc. Seventeen … Continue reading
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Tagged BinCam, Bob Oakes, Bora Chhun, Boston Globe Magazine, Daily Mail, Leo Hickman, Lowell, Newcastle University, recycling, The Guardian, WBUR, Yasmin Amer
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New York Times Gives Boston’s ‘Moulin Rouge’ Big Thumbs Up
Turns out it’s not just the Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout who’s smitten with Boston theater productions. New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley likes them too. Songs to Sin By in a Smashing ‘Moulin Rouge!’ Its pieces zoom through … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Jay Lerner, Alfred P. Doolittle, Amanda Dehnert, Baz Luhrmann, Ben Brantley, Christopher Chew, Colonel Pickering, Company, Eliza Doolittle, Emerson Colonial Theater, Frederick Loewe, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Higgins, J.T. Turner, Jennifer Ellis, Light Up the Sky, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Melissa Errico, Moulin Rouge, My Fair Lady, New York Times, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playbill, playgoing staff, Pygmalion, Rafael Jaen, Remo Airaldi, Richard Chamberlain, Spiro Veloudos, Stephen Sondheim, Terry Teachout, TKTS booth, Wall Street Journal
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Quote o’ the Day (Trump European Geography Lesson Edition)
More evidence that the Cheeto-in-Chief is America’s first pre-literate president. (The hardworking staff has already established that Donald Trump is America’s first cubist president – he’s been on every side of every issue.) Anyway, the World According to Trump: Man, … Continue reading
Purdue Pharma Opioid Ads Keep Trying to Dull Sackler Pain
As the hardworking staff has resolutely noted, OxyContin pusher Purdue Pharma has been spending millions of dollars in an attempt to 1) adwash the Sackler family’s responsibility for hooking millions of Americans on opioids and 2) minimize the current blowback … Continue reading
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Tagged adwash, American Museum of Natural History, Berlin Jewish Museum, Chris Christie, Christopher Glazek, Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, Esquire, Guggenheim Museum, Harvard University, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford's Ashmolean, Oxycontin, Patrick Radden Keefe, Peking University, Purdue Pharma, Royal Academy, Sackler, Sackler Courtyard, Sackler family, September 11th every three weeks, Smithsonian, Tate Modern, Temple of Dendur, The New Yorker, Victoria and Albert Museum
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