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Headline o’ the Day (Uber All Is Edition)
From Valley Wag (tip o’ the pixel to Politico Playbook): People Keep Getting Into Strangers’ Cars Because They Think It’s An Uber Backtrack story: Just because Uber’s motto is “Everyone’s private driver,” doesn’t mean every car is yours for the hailing. … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashwin Deshmukh, Gawker, Lyft, Politico Playbook, Uber, Valley Wag, Williamsburg
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Time Inc. Writers: Be Advertiser Friendly – Or Else!
The hardtracking staff has noted on numerous occasions Time Inc.’s pimping out its editorial content to advertisers. Now comes Exhibit Umpteen, via Gawker. Time Inc. Rates Writers on How “Beneficial” They Are to Advertisers Time Inc. has fallen on hard … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Napoli, CEO Joe Ripp, Gawker, Henry Luce, Italian fascism, Newspaper Guild, Sneak ADtack, Sports Illustrated, Time Inc.
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Tru(th) in Advertising
Rarely does an advertiser kick the crap out of itself in public (Dominos’ Our Pizza Sucks campaign in 2010 strikes us as the most recent example), but TruTV did just that in Monday’s New York Times. Facing pages in the … Continue reading
Apparently Michael Bloomberg Did NOT Pay for a NYT Ad Praising Michael Bloomberg
As you splendid readers of this thing might remember, last month the hardworking staff wondered about this full-page ad that ran – twice – in the New York Times. What we wondered, specifically, was whether outgoing New York … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciative New Yorkers, Gawker, Henry Hudson, Michael Bloomberg, New York Times, Snarker
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Gawker Channels Dr. Ads!
Snarknado website Gawker featured this item yesterday: New York Times Doesn’t Know Who Bought Strange Pro-Bloomberg Ad Late last year, print readers of The New York Times discovered a full-page color ad, signed by a group called “Appreciative New Yorkers,” touting … Continue reading
NYT’s David Carr Catches Up To Sneak Adtack
The hardtracking staff yields to no man in its admiration for New York Times media critic David Carr, whose columns are invariably insightful and informative. Regarding his piece in Monday’s Times, though – frankly, we were there first. But Carr did a nice … Continue reading