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Amazon Delivers News Packages to Compliant Media Outlets
Call it Prime-ing the news pump. In the runup to today’s annual shareholder meeting, Amazon has tried to disinfect its COVID-battered image with a video produced in the form of a news report and distributed to local TV stations around … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Courier, COVID-19, New York Times, Prime-ing the news pump, propagambit, Todd Walker
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South Boston’s 02210 Lands on Wall Street Journal’s ‘Rich Zips’
For the past several years, the hardworking staff has been largely disoriented by Boston’s Waterfront development. Every time we venture there, it seems three new high-rises have sprung up and three dozen parking spaces have disappeared. Still, we were a … Continue reading
WSJ’s Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Amazon/Big Town Edition)
From our Peggy Noodnik desk Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan filed a totally clueless piece in yesterday’s edition about Amazon’s folding like origami in the face of predictable opposition to its proposed headquarters in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Andrew Cuomo, Bill de Blasio, CNBC, Elizabeth Schulze, HQ2, Peggy Noodnik, Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
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New York Times Goes Native with Russian Nesting Ads
From our State of the Cuisinart Marketing desk As the hardtracking staff noted last year, the New York Times has taken to running print ads promoting the native advertising its T Brand Studio creates for marketers. Representative sample: … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Christie's, Citi, Delta, Loving Hearts, Margaret Sullivan, Mark Thompson, MTV, New York Times, Philips, Realizing a Dream, Reuters Institute Digital News Report, Russian nesting ads, schlimbesserung, Sneak ADtack, State of the Cuisinart Marketing, T Brand Studio, The Progress Makers, UBS, What It Takes to Be Human
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Round Midnight at the Global Worldwide Headquarters (Wishbone Ash Rockpalast ’76 Edition)
Let’s stipulate (as they say on Law & Order) that Andy Powell of Wishbone Ash was one helluva lead guitarist. Then let’s enjoy this Rockpalast Cologne gig in 1976 (especially Time Was and Blowin’ Free 59:40-1:14:18). Channeling Amazon, … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Andy Powell, Blowin' Free, Error of My Ways, Handy, Jimi Hendrix, Law & Order, Rockpalast Cologne 1976, Time Was, Wishbone Ash
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Hey, Jeff Bezos: Welcome to the Amazone!
For several months now, online giant Amazon has been leaning on publishing pygmy Hachette in order to exact more, well, tribute for its bookselling. Improbably, Hachette has fought back, taking a hatchet to the Beast of Bezos. From Deadline Hollywood: Grisham, … Continue reading
Ask Dr. Ads: What’s Up With The ‘Reform Government Surveillance’ Ad?
Well the Doc opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out. Dear Dr. Ads, I don’t read the New York Times much (I’m a Washington Post kind of guy), but I happened upon Monday’s edition and here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Acting Surgeon General, Amazon, AOL, Apple, Ask Dr. Ads, Boris D. Lushniak, Facebook, Google, Internet, Jeff Bezos, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Mom 'n' Pop-Up site, Murderers' Row, New York Times, Pres. Obama, Reform Government Surveillance, Silicon Valley, Twitter, Washington Post, Yahoo
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NYT Book Reviewer Deconstructs Tsarnaev Brothers’ Social Media Narrative
Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times’ intrepid book reviewer, had a front-page piece in Wednesday’s edition detailing the digital doings of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Unraveling Boston Suspects’ Online Lives, Link by Link It is America’s first fully interactive national … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Twitter, VKontakte, YouTube
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Whitey Wars In Local Dailies
From our Dueling Excerpts desk For the past three days, the Boston Herald has been excerpting columnist Howie Carr’s new book Rifleman: The Untold Story of Stevie Flemmi, Whitey Bulger’s Partner. (The hardreading staff suspects that lots of the book is … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Howie Carr, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Kevin Cullen, Rifleman: The Untold Story of Stevie Flemmi, Shelly Murphy, Whitey Bulger, Whitey Bulger's Partner, Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice
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