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Miami Vise (NBA Championship Edition)
Behold the Miami-Industrial Complex: That MiamiWhereWorldsMeet crowd got together to run this ad in Tuesday’s New York Times celebrating the Heat’s second consecutive NBA Championship: You know what’s really So Miami? 400,000 people turned out for the victory parade. Roughly the same … Continue reading
LinsADity!
New York Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin is the new Lindorser for Volvo, as Bloomberg New reports: Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks signed a two-year contract to promote Volvo Cars in China and the U.S. Lin, a 23-year-old Harvard University graduate, sparked the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomberg News, flash-Lin-the-pan, Jeremy Lin, Linsanity, NBA, New York Knicks, New York Times, Volvo
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Did NPR & PRI Rip Off WSJ?
It’s not a rhetorical question. It’s a real question. Here’s the Wall Street Journal’s A-Hed on Wednesday: Talking Basketball, in Spanish, Is Definitely No Slam Dunk ‘Donquear’ Would Be Spanglish; Covering the NBA Finals for Latino Fans MIAMI—Broadcasters covering the … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Hed, All Things Considered, Edward Schumacher-Matos, NBA, NPR, NPR Ombudsman, PRI, Spanglish, The World, Wall Street Journal, Xerox journalism
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