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We Time’s-Upped Lena Dunham Way Before The Sisters Did
Lena (Bad News) Dunham opened the family-sized can of worms when she posted this on Instagram. That led to this rebuttal, as chronicled by Paper’s Beatrice Hazlehurst. TIME’S UP SAYS LENA DUNHAM WAS NOT PART OF THE MOVEMENT Reese Witherspoon, … Continue reading
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Tagged America Ferrera, Amy Poehler, Beatrice Hazlehurst, Brie Larson, Campaign Outsider, Emma Stone, Girls, James Wolcott, Lena Dunham, like Brown on Williamson, Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, New York, Paper, Rashida Jones, Reese Witherspoon, Rosario Dawson, Tessa Thompson, The Cut, Thor: Ragnarok, Time's Up, Tracy Ellis Ross, Vanity Fair
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The Grey Lady Opens the Kimono All the Way
As the hard tracking staff at Sneak Adtack has dutifully noted, the New York Times is increasingly blurring the line between advertising and editorial. Especially prevalent are the Russian nesting ads the Times has developed – advertising in the print … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Seaman, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., Campaign Outsider, Charles Duhigg, Columbia Journalism Review, Dean Baquet, Elisabeth Bumiller, Grey Lady, Half Moon Bay, Jeff Gerth, native advertising, New Work Summit, New York Times, New York Times Conferences, Nicholas Kristof, NYT Live, Paul Farhi, Ray Dalio, Reuters, Russian nesting ads, shenadigans, Society of Professional Journalists, State of the Cuisinart, T Brand Studio, Times Journeys, Times Store, Washington Post
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The Native Advertisers Are Restless
Once around the park, James, and don’t spare the sources! The hardtracking staff has started to discern the dawn of Sneak 2.0 – a second wave of stealth marketing that tries to herd the ads in sheep’s clothing into more … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Outsider, Contently, CUNY, Jack Marshall, Joe Lazauskas, Joe Mandese, Lukas I. Alpert, MediaDailyNews, MediaPost, NiemanLab, Radius Global Market Research, second-wave stealth marketing, Sneak 2.0, Sneak ADtack, Tow-Knight Center, Wall Street Journal
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The Weekly Standard Pimps Out Its Cover and Writers – Again!
This is getting to be a habit, no? As the hardworking staff has repeatedly noted, The Weekly Standard has lately become a marketing chippy for its owner Philip Anschutz, who also owns Xanterra Parks & Resorts. As we wrote earlier: … Continue reading
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Tagged A Park Called Zion, aditorial, Aesop's Fables, Berman Exposed, Black Hills, Campaign Outsider, Center for Union Facts, Center for Union Whatever, Death Valley Days, Employee Rights Act, Geoffrey Norman, Getty Images, Grand Canyon, Jackie Robinson, James Bowers, Joseph Bottum, Mitchell Blatt, Mount Rushmore, NewsBusters, Philip Anschutz, Rick Berman, Sneak ADtack, the field of the lowered, The Most Beautiful Scar, the scorpion and the frog, The Weekly Standard, William Kristol, Xanterra Parks & Resorts
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Correction: Union-Busting Front Group Didn’t Hijack Jackie Robinson’s Photo – Just His Image
As the hardtracking staff [at Sneak Adtack] noted yesterday, corporate gunsel Rick Berman’s stealth non-profit, Center for Union Facts, has been running this ad lately in the Weekly Standard. That raised a couple of questions for us, one of which … Continue reading
Anti-Union Front Group Hijacks Jackie Robinson
The hardtracking staff’s kissin’ cousins at Campaign Outsider have written extensively about Rick Berman, the corporate gunsel who sets up stealth non-profit groups to front for the liquor, fast-food, tobacco, and restaurant industries. Oh, yes – and for any companies … Continue reading
NYT Slowbituary Of Manson Whitlock (Typewriter Repair Division)
Last week the hardworking staff noted the passing of Manson Whitlock, typewriter repairman extraordinaire. While the hardwaiting staff continues to monitor the Boston Herald for a Seamus Heaney obituary, we came across this excellent Washington Post obit of the redoubtable Manson Whitlock … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Campaign Outsider, Christian Science Monitor, hardworking staff, Iron Whim, Margalit Fox, Mason Whitlock, New Haven Register, New York Times, Olivetti Lettera 22, Remington, Royal, slowbituary, Smith Corona, The New Yorker, The Typing Life, typewriter, Underwood, Washington Post
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The ‘Ray Donovan’ Rumpus? It Ends Tonight!
As the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider noted earlier, the Times-Industrial Complex rendered a split decision on Showtime’s new series Ray Donovan. New York Times critic Alessandra Stanley found it “grandiose, predictable and painfully slow,” while kissin’ cousin Boston Globe critic Matthew Gilbert considered it “fantastic.” … Continue reading
The Problem With (Literally) Dead Blogging
The hardtracking staff has – in [this] venue – initiated the concept of Dead Blogging: Actually waiting for something to be over before writing about it. But this weekend’s Wall Street Journal features a different sort of dead blogging: Life and Death Online: Who … Continue reading