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NY Broadsheets See Different Art Auction Action
From our Compare and Contrast in Clear Idiomatic English desk There’s a shipload of historic fine art up for auction in the Big Town right now, and it’s characterized very differently in the local broadsheets. The Wall Street Journal, not … Continue reading
NYT Goes To War With WSJ
From our Campaign Outsider Blogeteria desk Monday’s New York Times gave a major facial to crosstown rival Wall Street Journal in this full-page ad targeted to potential advertisers: For the fine-print impaired: The Times’s U.S. audience across desktop, smartphone and … Continue reading
WSJ Beats NYT On CDC Antismoking Ads
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has officially abandoned its effort to require tobacco companies to print graphic Australian-style warnings on cigarette packs. But that doesn’t mean the federal government has ended its sporadic antismoking effort. From Friday’s Wall Street Journal: Graphic New Antismoking Ads … Continue reading
When NYT Worlds Collide (Gillette Ad And Editorial Edition)
Coincidentally (or not), Gillette’s new Fusion ProGlide Styler turned up both in the New York Times advertising column and the New York Times advertising pages on Tuesday. From the Times Business section: Shaving Below a Man’s Neck, if That’s What She … Continue reading
Why The New York Times Is A Great Newspaper (GNC Jack3d Edition)
From Sunday’s New York Times Business section: Is the Seller to Blame? Workout Supplement Challenged After Death of Soldier EVERY morning as she gets dressed for her accounting job, Leanne Sparling hangs her son’s military dog tags and a photograph of him … Continue reading
Newseum’s Top Ten Pope-a-Lope Front Pages Skips the Best One
Every day The Newseum posts its Today’s Top Ten Front Pages, which featured this on Tuesday: Caught Off Guard Monday’s shocking news of Pope Benedict XVI’s impending resignation caught the world, and the media, off guard. Today, newspapers around the globe caught up, with front-page … Continue reading
Snow Kidding! New York Dailies In Storm Coverage Photo Finish
What are the odds that three of the four Big Town dailies would feature the same Page One photo in their coverage of this weekend’s big storm? Pretty good, as the Poynter website reported yesterday: Same photo appears on front pages of … Continue reading