Tag Archives: All Things Considered

Job Corps Students Are About to Get a Very Cruel Lesson

Posted on July 8, 2025 by Campaign Outsider

Driving around town yesterday, I heard this NPR piece by Maggie Ryan with Little Rock Public Radio about the senseless, soulless cutting of 90 federally funded Job Corps centers run by contractors across the country, which would end the program … Continue reading →

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Sharpiegate Rumpus Misses the Real Scandal at NWS

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

Yes, Donald Trump is an idiot for mobilizing his entire sadministration – including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees the National Weather Service – to back up his chronic moronic claims that Hurricane Dorian would ravage Alabama, even … Continue reading →

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When a Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés (‘Tamper Down’ Edition)

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

From our That’s Just Sad desk Every now and again the hardclipping staff chronicles the mangled phrases uttered by the differently clichéd among us and, man, they are legion. Here’s our latest batch, in reverse chronological order. • The other … Continue reading →

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When a Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés . . .

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

. . . well that’s just sad. As you splendid readers might – or might not – recall, the hardworking staff has diligently recorded mangled phrases in the media over the past few years. All too often, what once were familiar … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged All Things Considered, Barton Swaim, Bookshelf, It's Been Said Before, Orin Hargraves, Richard Renaldi, Studio 360, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment

You Have No Idea How Much They’re Watching You Online

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

You probably know that Facebook and Google are strip-mining you like West Virginia for online data, but that’s just part of the story. NPR’s All Things Considered is trying to provide the rest of it in its series Your Digital Trail. … Continue reading →

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Haul Of Mirrors: The New Wave Of ‘Look What I Bought’ Videos

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

First off, the hardtracking staff admits we’re way behind the curve when we have to rely on NPR to keep us up to date. That said, here’s the latest front in the stealth marketing juggernaut: Haul Videos. Representative sample (this has 1,713,861 … Continue reading →

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Howie Carr’s WTKK Drive-By

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Boston Herald columnist/WRKO squawker Howie Carr is experiencing an extreme bout of Howenfreude over the demise of FM talk station WTKK. (Full disclosure: The hardreading staff did a weekly segment on the Jim & Margery show.) Today’s triumphant nyah-nyah from Carr: Talk radio’s not dead, just … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 96.9, All Things Considered, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Harry Truman, Howie Carr, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Jim & Margery, Jim Braude, Margery Eagan, Namesniks, NPR, WTKK | 2 Comments

Is The Mass. GOP Laundering Money For Mitt Romney?

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Interesting NPR piece about the $236 million raised in the past few months by Romney Victory, Incorporated, “a joint fundraising committee that allows donors to give far more than the usual $5,000. Its limit is over $75,000 per person.” And … Continue reading →

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Is It The God Particle, Or The Goddamn Particle?

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The media rumpus over the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson subatomic particle has now reached critical mass (yuk yuk), but one question that apparently hasn’t been settled is how it was dubbed “the God particle.” From yesterday’s Wall Street … Continue reading →

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What We Need Is A “Do Not Trick” Law

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

NPR’s All Things Considered ran a piece yesterday about negotiations among U.S. technology companies to protect consumer privacy on the Internet, with a special eye toward European standards: America’s big technology companies are negotiating the details of a new privacy system called … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged All Things Considered, CISPA, cyberthreats, Do Not Track, Europe, NPR, Sneak ADtack | 2 Comments