Say, the Boston Herald didn’t like all that sarcasm Barack Obama threw at Mitt Romney in last night’s debate, did they?
Start with Page One (via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages) . . .
Read the rest at IGTLTDT.
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Taylor-Made: Split Decision On Swift’s New Album)
Today’s local dailies have polar opposite reviews of Taylor Swift’s new album.
Start with James Reed’s piece in the Boston Globe . . .
See the rest at IGTLTDT. (Bonus gossip at end of post.)
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Rest Easy, Brookliners: The Single-Space Parking Meters Are Back In Coolidge Corner
As the hardworking staff noted last spring, there’s been a major kerfuffle in Brookline over the parking meters in Coolidge Corner and elsewhere.
The People’s Republic of Brookline is all aTwitter over the new multispace parking meters that recently replaced single-space meters around town.
From Sunday’s Boston Globe:
Outcry over new parking meters
An outcry against the multispace parking meters that replaced hundreds of single-space meters in Brookline last year has convinced Town Administrator Mel Kleckner that it’s time for the town to reverse course.
Kleckner is proposing a plan to remove almost all of the multispace meters that were installed along Brookline streets at the beginning of 2011 at a cost of more than $1 million. Hired by the town in the fall of 2010, Kleckner said he’s been dealing with complaints about the multispace meter system through most of his tenure.
“I just don’t think it’s convenient enough, and for whatever reason it has really created a problem,” said Kleckner. “It’s a big problem. I think it makes the town look bad.”
Well, the multispace meters now have plastic garbage bags covering them, and the single-space meters are back in place.
So does that make the town look good? Or just one million dollars worse?
Back in the ’70s, our great friend Kate Whelan coined the phrase “Foolish Corner” (George’s Folly was still in business then).
She didn’t know the half of it.
Advertisers Try To Derail Do Not Track Movement
Pity the poor online marketers. Their unfettered access to your consumer data is being threatened, and they don’t like it.
From last Sunday’s New York Times:
Do Not Track? Advertisers Say ‘Don’t Tread on Us’
THE campaign to defang the “Do Not Track” movement began late last month.
Do Not Track mechanisms are features on browsers — like Mozilla’s Firefox — that give consumers the option of sending out digital signals asking companies to stop collecting information about their online activities for purposes of targeted advertising.
Can’t have that, right?
Read the rest at Sneak Adtack.
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Brian McGrory: Assignment Desk For The Boston Herald)
On Friday, Boston Globe columnist Brian McGrory submitted this piece (boink! sorry, paywall):
Ads up; it’s just way too much
I was walking near Copley Square one recent morning when I made a profound mistake. I stopped to appreciate the scenery . . .
Read the rest at IGTLTDT.
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (‘Scout’ Brown In The Boston Herald)
The thoroughly reprehensible Boy Scout scandal got – wait for it – very different coverage in Saturday’s local dailies . . .
Read the rest at IGTLTDT.
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Dead Blogging ‘American Vanguards’ At The Addison Gallery
So the Missus and I trundled up to Andover yesterday to catch the American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, De Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927-1942 at the Addison Gallery of American Art.
And it’s a corker.
John Graham, Stuart Davis, and Arshile Gorky were the “Three Musketeers” of American modernism in the first half of the 20th century. Willem de Kooning became the D’Artagnan of the tight-knit circle, which also included David Smith, Jackson Pollack, Edgar Levy, Jan Matulka, and others.
Representative samples:
Graham’s 1929 Table Top Still Life with Bird
Edgar Levy’s 1938 Figure in Yellow Window
David Smith’s 1939 Structure of Arches
Go see the rest. They’re well worth the trip.
State-of-the-Cuisinart Marketing: How To Blur The Line Between Advertising And Editorial Content
Once upon a time, there was a bright line between advertising and editorial content/entertainment.
As in, here’s where the news content stops and the advertising starts; or here’s where the entertainment programming stops and the advertising starts.
No more.
Marketers and news organizations are now doing their best to redefine advertising as “just like editorial content,” as one Forbes Media executive explained.
Start with news media distributing brand-produced videos cheek-by-jowl with news videos.
From MediaPost:
The Natives Are Restless: News Publishers Move Line Distinguishing Edit, Ad Content
If there is a red line delineating the church and state of journalism, some big news publishers have just crossed it — introducing a spate of new “native” advertising formats that blur the line between advertising and editorial content in new ways, including brand-produced videos served directly in the news organizations’ video news players. The publishers, which include NBC News and Forbes, are not sheepish, much less apologetic about moving the line more to the advertisers’ side of the ledger, but say it is part of an inexorable — indeed an inevitable — shift merging the “storytelling” of their organic journalism with those of their advertisers.
It’s all about new revenue models, the newsvertising organizations say, “as well as changes in the way consumers — especially digital users — consume and even think about news content . . . ”
For further details, see Sneak Adtack.
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Who Hates The Yankees More: The Globe Or The Herald?)
Red Sox Nation – and the Boston dailies – are relishing the meltdown of the Bronx Bummers. So who’s hatin’ on the Yankees the most? You might – or might not – be surprised. Details at IGTLTDT.
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