Tag Archives: New York Times

Museum of Fine Arts Gets Shoutout From Turkish Government

Posted on April 30, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Regifting Party desk The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey ran this ad in Friday’s New York Times. Talk Turkey grafs: Nice! Happy ending! Except . . . … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, Dallas Museum of Art, Geoff Edgers, MFA, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey, Museum of Fine Arts, New York Times, Orpheus Mosaic, Perge, Weary Herakles | Leave a comment

Civilians Who Run Full-Page Ads in the New York Times (@elondumptrump Edition)

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

From our never-ending All Those Dollars and No Sense series Elon Musk, celebrated electric carhop and fledgling space cadet, generally gets positive press – except for yesterday, when this full-page ad appeared in four daily newspapers. Close-up for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged @elondumptrump, All Those Dollars and No Sense desk, Amber Heard, climate change, CNN, Donald Trump, Doug Derwin, Elon Musk, Fortune, Hat Tweet Challenge, Jackie Wattles, New York Times, SpaceX, Tesla, Washington Post | Leave a comment

Hell-no, Dolly! NYT, WSJ Critics Make Very Different Bettes

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

It’s always fun when the bull goose theater critics in The Big Town provide the Broadway version of Bizarro World over some megabucks production. Case in point: The New York Times and Wall Street Journal reviews of Bette Midler as the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barbra Streisand, Ben Brantley, Bette Midler, Carol Channing, Dolly Levi, Hello Dolly!, New York Times, Shubert Theater, Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal | 6 Comments

New York Times: All the Nudes That’s Fit to Print

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardblushing staff has noted on previous occasions (see here and here), the Grey Lady has been opening the kimono more and more of late, from an ulp-skirt Louis Vuitton ad several years ago to this eye-popping Christie’s ad last fall. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amedeo Modigliani, Christie's, Federico Beltran-Masses, Gagosian Gallery, hardblushing staff, John Currin, Louis Vuitton, M.S. Ray Antiques, New York Times, The Nude York Times, ulp-skirt | 3 Comments

Liz’s New Book Warren(ts) Full-Page New York Times Ad

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Nevertheless) has a new book out – This Fight Is Our Fight – and a spiffy marketing campaign to go along with it. Exhibit A (5): This full-page ad in today’s New York Times. But that’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged America Rising PAC, Colin Reed, Elizabeth Warren, Lauren Dezenski, Liawatha of the Senate, Lion of the Senate, New York Times, Politico, Ted Kennedy, This Fight Is Our Fight | Leave a comment

NYT Photog Sergey Ponomarev’s Page One Pic Is . . . Art

Posted on April 12, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

The hardlooking staff has long admired the photographic skill of New York Times shutterbug Sergey Ponomarev, who dominated the paper’s 2013 Year in Pictures review. Yesterday, though, Ponomarev outdid himself with this front-page photo. Close up: Man, that is … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Brexit, London, New York Times, Sarah Lyall, Sergey Ponomarev, The Gherkin, Year in Pictures | Leave a comment

New York Times Publishes Chinese Government Propaganda

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

In the run-up to yesterday’s Donald Trump-Xi Jinping hoedown at Mar-a-Lago, the New York Times ran this full-page piece of aditprop from Chinese government mouthpiece Xinhua News Agency. (To be fair graf goes here) To be fair, just … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged aditprop, Donald Trump, Mar-a-Lago, New York Times, Xi Jinpng, Xinhua News Agency | 2 Comments

The Colin Kaepernick ‘Blacklist’ Is – Seriously – His Own Fault

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

So the hardlistening staff caught this piece on Weekend All Things Considered the other day. How Much Are Colin Kaepernick’s Political Views Impacting His Unsigned Status? We’re going to take a few minutes now to talk about sports. Now, even … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged blacklist, Bucky Brooks, Colin Kaepernick, Michel Martin, New York Times, NFL, NPR, San Francisco 49ers, SB nation, Victor Mather, Weekend All Things Considered | 2 Comments

NYT Editing Slashback: ‘Richard Simmons Is President’ Edition

Posted on March 14, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

From our Get Me Rewrite! desk As New York Times public editor Liz Spayd noted last month, the paper’s “editing architecture”has traditionally employed multiple layers of editors, with most stories blue-penciled by three editors, “with up to six or more if … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bespoke editing, Dan Taberski, Donald J. Trump, Editing 101, iTunes, Missing Richard Simmons, New York Times, Richard Simmons, Sopan Deb, The Daily News | Leave a comment

NYT (Sp)IndyCar Piece Totally Ignores Boston Strand Prix

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

As you splendid readers no doubt remember, the IndyCar Series has a memorable Boston track record, having crashed and burned last year in its attempt to hubcap the Hub. We’ll pass over in silence the many downshifts IndyCar driver John … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Dave Caldwell, Grand Prix of Boston, IndyCar Series, John Casey, Mark Miles, Nascar, New York Times, Strand Prix | Leave a comment