Tag Archives: New York Times

Correction o’ the Day (Joe Nocera Woodshed Edition)

Posted on May 3, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Last Saturday the New York Times op-ed page featured this piece by columnist Joe Nocera. Buffett Bites Back The first Saturday in May is always a great day for Warren Buffett. That’s the day his conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway, holds its annual meeting in … Continue reading →

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That’s Just So ‘Means’! (NYT Ermenegildo Zegna Edition)

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff is always amused by what the New York Times considers mainstream fashion. From Matthew Schneier’s piece in yesterday’s Thursday Styles section: Dressing the Man of Means Designers Are Waking Up To a Men’s Luxury Fashion Market The lexicon … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bain & Company, Berluti, Brioni, Ermenegildo Zegna, Gildo Zegna, Henry, High Earner Not Rich Yet, HSBC, jimmy cap, Man of Means, Matthew Schneier, metrosexual, New York Times, Thursday Styles, Young Urban Male, Yummy | 1 Comment

Correction o’ the Day (NYT Corrects Its Correction)

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

From our M.C. Escher desk Friday’s New York Times ran the following: A correction in this space on Thursday for a Political Memo article about the likelihood that the nomination of Hillary Rodham Clinton for president would block the paths … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cheri Honkala, corrections, Green Party, Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein, Kirsten Gillibrand, M.C. Escher, New York Times, Politico Memo, president, Twelfth Amendment, U.S. Constitution, vice president, White House | 1 Comment

Twitter Goes Native (Advertising). New York Says Its Standardized English Tests Haven’t

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

One by one, the media outlets you know and love are falling prey to stealth marketing. Call the roll: The New York Times. The Wall Street Journal. NBC’s The Tonight Show. The Washington Post. And etc. (See here for all … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged All Twitter, Android, Associated Press, Barbie, branded content, Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, Common Core, iOS, iPod, Josh Golin, Life Savers, MediaBistro, MoPub, Mug Root Beer, NBC, New York, New York State Education Department, New York Times, Nike, Pearson, Product placement, Sneak ADtack, standardized tests, stealth marketing, The Tonight Show, Tom Dunn, Twitter, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post | 2 Comments

Correction o’ the Day (Pablo Picasso Edition)

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

From Tuesday’s New York Times: (Roger Fessaguet obit here.) But what if Picasso had visited the United States? What would have happened to his newspaper collages that featured French dailies Le Figaro and Le Journal? Representative samples: … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers, La Caravelle, Le Figaro, Le Journal, Library of Congress, National Endowment for the Humanities, New York Evening World, New York Times, New York Tribune, newspaper collages, Pablo Picasso, Roger Fessaguet | 1 Comment

Whatever Happened to ‘The Captain Goes Down with the Ship’?

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

First there was Francesco Schettino, the idiot captain who literally showboated the Costa Concordia onto some rocks, then fell into a lifeboat before the ship sank. He was the Italian Captain Coward. Now comes the South Korean shipcarnation. From Friday’s Boston Globe … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, Captain Coward, Costa Concordia, fell into a lifeboat, Francesco Schettino, Jindo, Kang Hae-seong, New York Times, South Korea, South Korean ferry, South Korean shipcarnation, The Independent | Leave a comment

NYT Also Excels at Boston Marathon Bombings Coverage

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

As you all undoubtedly know by now, the Boston Globe has won a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize for its Breaking News Reporting of last year’s Marathon bombings. Less noticed locally is the New York Times Feature Photography Pulitzer for Josh Haner’s “moving essay on … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bill Richard, Boston Globe, Boston Marathon bombings, Breaking News Reporting, Brian McGrory, Dan Kennedy, David Abel, Denise Richard, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Feature Photography, Henry Richard, J.P. Norden, Jane Richard, Jessica Rinaldi, Josh Haner, Katharine Q. Seelye, Martin Richard, Media Nation, New York Times, Paul Norden, Pulitzer Prize | 3 Comments

Big Town v. Bean Town (Guggenheim Fellowship Edition)

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Every year the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards fellowships “to assist research and artistic creation.” And, as is its wont, the Foundation ran a full-page ad in the New York Times to announce its 2014 recipients. Massachusetts artists, scholars, … Continue reading →

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Correction o’ the Day (At Play in the Fields of the Times Edition)

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

The prolific author Peter Matthiessen died last week and the obituaries came fast and, in some cases, loose. From Wednesday’s New York Times Corrections: FRONT PAGE An obituary in some editions on Sunday and in early editions on Monday about … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Bitcoins, Dog Soldiers, Ernest Hemingway, Far Tortuga, George Plimpton, Goodreads, Hotchkiss School, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, New York Times, Peter Matthiessen, Roger Stone, St. Bernard's, The Old Man and the Sea, Viking Press | 2 Comments

NYT – Finally! – Catches Up to Hardworking Staff (Disney World Edition)

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Two weeks ago the hardworking staff did a turn on NPR’s Here & Now with the estimable Sacha Pfeiffer, talking about the Extreme Data Mining currently being inflicted on consumers. PFEIFFER: So, John, of course, collecting is becoming so widespread, data collection. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged as the feller says, Disney World, extreme data mining, Here & Now, Magic Kingdom, My Magic Plus, MyMagic+, New York Times, NPR, Sacha Pfeiffer, the trackiest place on earth, Walt Disney World, WBUR, Your Facebook page is being strip-mined like West Virginia | 1 Comment