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Restaurant Employees Fleeing? Bring Back the Automat!
According to multiple news reports, the exodus of restaurant employees from their jobs has reached Biblical proportions, as Business Insider’s Juliana Kaplan and Madison Hoff reported last month. A record-high 1 million restaurant and hotel workers quit in November — and it … Continue reading
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Tagged askART, automat, Business Insider, Carl Reiner, Chock Full O' Nuts, Colin Powell, East 89th Street, Elliott Gould, Horn & Hardart, Howard Schultz, Joe Morgenstern, Juliana Kaplan, Lisa Hurwitz, Longchamps, Madison Hoff, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Marketplace, Mary Elizabeth, Mel Brooks, Nedick's, New York Public Library, New York Public Library Digital Collections, NYPL, Recollection Road, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Schrafft's, Sulamith Sokolsky, The Automat
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Blogola Goes Big-Time in Mainstream Media
For several years now the hardtracking staff has noted the growing use of blogola in violation of Federal Trade Commission guidelines, from Lord & Taylor’s paying 50 bloggers under the table to wear a dress from its Design Lab clothing collection and … Continue reading
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Tagged blogola, blogolanaut, Business Insider, Design Lab, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Federal Trade Commission, Forbes, FTC, Honda, Huffington Post, HuffPost, Inc., Jason Feifer, John Biggs, Jon Christian, Lord & Taylor, Mario Ruiz, Mashable, pay-for-bray, TechCrunch, The Outline, Varun Satyam
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Gillette and Harry’s Cross Blades in Sunday’s New York Times
The Battle of the Blades between longtime category leader Gillette and upstart razor maker Harry’s went full-page boogie in yesterday’s New York Times. First up: This Gillette ad on A7. The Harry’s ad (back page of the Sunday Styles … Continue reading
Hack Attack! Salon’s Brutal Takedown of Bigfoot Journalists
Salon’s Alex Pareene has assembled a Top Ten Hackorama of Political Journalists and it’s a corker (tip o’ the pixel to AlterNet). Pareene blowtorches some of the most notable members of the chinstrokerati, “[channeling] each media figure’s ‘unique’ voice — … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Pareene, AlterNet, Benny Johnson, Bob Woodward, Business Insider, Buzzfeed, chinstrokerati, David Brooks, Erick Erickson, Game Change, George Will, Henry Blodget, John Heilemann, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Halperin, Maureen Dowd, Mike Allen, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Politico, RedState, Richard Cohen, Salon, The New Yorker, Thomas Friedman, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
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‘Business Insider’ Lets Advertiser Inside News Content
Big surprise: Yet another news organization has pimped out its editorial content to a paying customer. From Advertising Age: Business Insider Gives Advertiser Veto Power Over ‘Future of Business’ Edit Mix To Start, Newsroom Stories in Sponsored Section Won’t Include Competitors … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising Age, Business Insider, linkitude, SAP, Sneak ADtack, The Future of Busines
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Creepy Commercial o’ the Week (Weight Loss Edition)
An outfit called Medifast is currently running this commercial on cable networks: How’d they do that? Business Insider had the answer: Filming began in January of last year with a group of Medifast customers who were willing to commit … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Insider, Conversation with My 12-Year-Old Self, Medifast, Tina Shelley, YouTube
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