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FishbowlDC Fails To Cover Lawsuit Against It

MediaBistro’s snarky Beltway site FishbowlDC has for some time featured  Wendy Wednesdays, a series targeting “D.C.’s uber publicist Wendy Gordon” in the most unflattering terms. Now Gordon has struck back (via Politico): FishbowlDC sued for libel Washington, D.C.-based publicist Wendy … Continue reading →

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Boston Herald: Death To Taxes!

The feisty local tabloid continues its anti-tax jihad today from the very first page (via The Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages): Inside the Herald puts a price tag on the tax hikes proposed by Gov. Deval Patrick (D-One Foot Out the Door) … Continue reading →

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Mike Wallace’s 1958 Dali-ance

From Wall Street Journal theater critic Terry Teachout’s invaluable About Last Night blog at ArtsJournal: First, marvel at the Parliament cigarette plug Wallace delivers. Then, marvelous Salvador Dali. The interview is two ships passing in the TV night: Wallace is … Continue reading →

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Product Placemint ($4.75 Billion Edition)

Advertisers to media content producers: Stick it in! From MediaPost’s Center for Media Research: Product Placement An Emerging Brand Marketing Solution According to the PQ Media Global Product Placement Spending Forecast 2012-2016, US marketers continue to up their investment in product placement … Continue reading →

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Jury’s Out On Carmen Ortiz

Not-quite-matching her & her columns in the local papers on the topic of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and her (over?)zealous prosecution of Aaron Swartz. Start with Margery Eagan’s column in the Boston Herald: Outrage over zealous feds Statement too little, too late … Continue reading →

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NHL = No Herald League

From our Whiskey Tango Foxtrot desk The recently ended NHL lockout was like the Iran-Iraq war – you wished somehow both sides could lose. And in a way they both did, so that’s a good thing. Now comes the task of winning … Continue reading →

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Contest-Generated Ad Goes Full Circle At NYT

When is a print ad both a story and an advertisement? When the New York Times makes it so! From Wednesday’s Times Business section: On Print’s Turf, Google Wins for Creativity THE winner of a contest to encourage creativity in … Continue reading →

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Has The New York Times Moved To No-Jump Street?

Several years ago the Wall Street Journal instituted a no-jumps policy, as noted quite bitterly by the Columbia Journalism Review: The WSJ and the Limits of a “No Jumps” Policy Dumbing down and devaluing The Wall Street Journal We’ve talked quite a … Continue reading →

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Boston Herald Jumps The Shark (Taxachusetts Edition)

The front pages of today’s local dailies almost – but don’t quite – say it all in their coverage of a looming tax hike in Massachusetts. The Boston Globe’s Page One (via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages) appears measured and slightly … Continue reading →

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The Atlantic’s ‘Native Advertising’ For Church Of Scientology Leads To Branded Discontent

This was bound to happen. “Native advertising” – marketing material tricked out as editorial content – is all the rage these days, as the hardtracking staff has noted on numerous occasions. And media organizations have been entirely complicit in mainstreaming this form … Continue reading →

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