Tag Archives: AP

AP Says Yes, Economist Says No to Stealth Marketing

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

Two major news organizations have come to a split decision about whether to run ads in sheep’s clothing. From Brendan James’s piece in the International Business Times: Associated Press Rolls Out Native Advertising Network The Associated Press might look like … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AP, Ashwin Sridhar, Associated Press, Brendan James, International Business Times, Paul Calouri, Sneak ADtack, The Economist, World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers | Leave a comment

Photo o’ the Day (David Brenner/Frank Zappa Edition)

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Here is David Brenner. And here is David Brenner’s obituary (via the Boston Globe’s AP pickup). David Brenner, 78; comedian seen on ‘Tonight Show’ David Brenner, the gangly, toothy-grinned ‘‘Tonight Show’’ favorite whose brand of observational comedy became a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AP, Boston Globe, David Brenner, Dweezil, Frank Zappa, Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Fallon, Johnny Carson, Moon Unit, Nightlife, Paul Reiser, Tonight Show | Leave a comment

State Of The Cuisinart Marketing #Umpteen: Everyone Jump In The Branded Content Pool!

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Once upon a time (about three months ago), branded content – read: ads in sheep’s clothing – was pretty much the exclusive province of online publishers from BuzzFeed to Gawker to TheAtlantic.com. That was then. Now mainstream news organizations are on branded … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ad Age, Adweek, AP, branded content, Buzzfeed, Digiday, FishbowlNY, Forbes, Gawker, Journalism.co.uk, Ken Detlet, MediaBistro, Meredith Kopit Levien, Meredith Levien, Michael Sebastian, Nancy Gibbs, Native Advertising Summit, New York Times, Sneak ADtack, State of the Cuisinart Marketing, TheAtlantic.com, Time, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

That’s Just So Wrong! (Monfils! Monfils! U.S. Open Edition)

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Last night’s U.S. Open featured something truly amazing: American tennis fans rooting against an American tennis player. Specifically, the match between 13th-seeded American John Isner and unseeded Gael Monfils in which the (most certainly drunk) New York crowd was solidly … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABC News, AP, Dr. Seuss, Flushing Meadows, Gael Monfils, John Isner, Monfilsical the Musical, Philipp Kohlschreiber, U.S.Open | 4 Comments

Herald Still Ain’t Seguin What Tyler Tweeted

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardreading staff noted yesterday, the Boston Herald has been uncharacteristically shy about quoting former Boston Bruin Tyler Seguin’s latest homophobic Twitter puck-up. Yesterday’s print edition of the feisty local tabloid didn’t even mention the incident, while this AP story on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AP, Boston Bruins, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Dallas Stars, Full Metal Jacket, gay slur, homophobic tweet, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, steers and queers, Twitter, Tyler Seguin | 4 Comments

Herald Revising History Again (Bombing Coverage Coverup II)

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The Boston Herald continues to criticize news organizations that erroneously reported an arrest two days after the Marathon bombings – without noting that the feisty local tabloid itself did exactly the same thing. Exhibit A: The Herald’s Press Party webbcast on Friday, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AP, Associated Press, Boston Herad, Boston Marathon bombings, Chart Girl, CNN, Guy Darst, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, John King | Leave a comment

Brain Freeze At Boston Herald

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Monday’s Boston Globe featured major coverage of a major brain injury study from Boston University. Via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages: (Full disclosure: The hardreading staff moonlights as a mass communication professor at BU.) . . . Read the rest … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AP, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston University, brain study, IGTLTDT, School of Medicine, Wingo Square | Leave a comment

It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town ( Brown/Warren Debate And Twitch)

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

There’s one final debatement in the Scott Brown/Elizabeth Warren U.S. Senate race. AP report via the Boston Herald: Warren ad tweaks Brown for refusing debate offer Democrat Elizabeth Warren is tweaking Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown for refusing a final debate offer. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AP, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Elizabeth Warren, final debate, IGTLTDT, Scott Brown | Leave a comment

It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Jerry Sandusky Update)

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Two days ago the hardworking staff asserted that Saturday’s Boston Herald (“Yesterday’s News Tomorrow”) contained no mention of Friday night’s Jerry Sandusky verdict. But then it occurred to the hardthinking staff: Maybe the Sandusky story ran in the Herald’s Sports … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AP, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Jerry Sandusky verdict, yesterday's news tomorrow | 2 Comments

John McCain Cory-Bookers Mitt Romney

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

First it was Newark Mayor Cory Booker on NBC’s Meet the Press sandblasting the Obama campaign’s anti-Bain Capital jihad: Now comes former presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Kiss My AZ) with this to say about presumptive presidential nominee Mitt … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AP, Barack Obama, Cory Booker, dead to us, John McCain, Meet the Press, New York Times | 8 Comments