Tag Archives: New York Times

That’s Just So Stupid! (Jeff Koons ‘Balloon’ Payment Edition)

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Full-page ad from Friday’s New York Times: Seriously? Thirty-five million dollars for a tired, lame-to-begin-with koncept? That would make history alright. Historic idiocy.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Balloon Dog (Orange), Christie's, Jeff Koons, New York Times | 2 Comments

That’s Just So Awkward! (NYT CEO Snubs NYT Edition)

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

(Tip o’ the pixel to the Missus) Thursday’s New York Times featured this piece on page A8: Britain Will Look at Why BBC Severance Payments Exceeded Contract Terms LONDON — When it comes to the BBC and funding that is … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BBC, BBC Trust, House of Commons, M.C. Escher, Mark Thompson, Milton, New York Times, Public Accounts Committee, severance payments, The Missus, William Wordsworth | 1 Comment

R.I.P. Manson Whitlock, Titan Of Typewriter Repair

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

While the hardwaiting staff continues to monitor the Boston Herald for a Seamus Heaney obituary, we came across this excellent Washington Post obit of the redoubtable Manson Whitlock (via Monday’s Boston Globe): Manson Whitlock; kept typewriters clacking WASHINGTON — Manson … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Iron Whim, Mason Whitlock, New Haven Register, New York Times, Olivetti Lettera 22, Remington, Royal, Smith Corona, The New Yorker, The Typing Life, typewriter, Underwood, Washington Post | 5 Comments

No Sendoff For Seamus Heaney In Boston Herald

Posted on September 1, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The great Seamus Heaney, considered by Robert Lowell the finest Irish poet since William Butler Yeats, died this week at age 74. The Boston Globe gave him a front-page below-the-fold appreciation by Kevin Cullen . . . . . . and a major … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ave-atque-editorial, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Joseph P. Kahn, Kevin Culen, Margalit Fox, Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, Seamus Heaney | Leave a comment

How Tom Menino Became Champion Of Boston Teen Summer Jobs

Posted on August 31, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Boston Globe columnist Shirley Leung filed a piece on Friday that sang the praises of Boston Mayor Tom Menino as Mr. Summer Jobs. Nut graf: Most major American cities abandoned their summer jobs programs after the federal funds that fueled … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1993, action mayah, Boston Globe, New York Times, Shirley Leung, summer jobs, Tom Menino | Leave a comment

Renuzit Sprays Branded Content: ‘Romancing The Joan’

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

New York Times ad critic Stuart (Stockholm Syndrome) Elliott gave yet another pass to a stealth marketing campaign, this time in Tuesday’s edition of the paper. A Soft Sell for Air Fresheners, With Joan Rivers in Reality Show Spoofs CAN a frank, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Henkel Consumer Goods, Jeff Huffman, Joan Rivers, Melissa Rivers, New York Times, Renuzit, Romancing the Joan, Sneak ADtack, Stockholm Syndrome, Stuart Elliott, The Bachelorette | Leave a comment

That’s Just So Stupid! (Novak Djerkovic U.S. Open Edition)

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

In the run-up to the 2013 U.S. Open, the New Yorker ran a major takeout by Lauren Collins on world number one tennis player Novak Djokovic. Nut graf: Djokovic and his family were slow to internalize the codes of tennis, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Lauren Collins, New York Times, Novak Djerkovic, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Ricardas Berankis, Roger Federer, Roy Emerson, The New Yorker, U.S.Open | Leave a comment

Bing Bling For Schools

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Party Favors desk This ad appeared in Sunday’s New York Times: Which got the hardwondering staff to wondering: What’s that all about? Just this (via PRNewswire): REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Bing launched a free, national … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bing, Bing for Schools, ComScore, Google ceiling, Microsoft, New York Times, PRNewswire, search engines, Surface RT tablets, TechCrunch, verbed | 2 Comments

Quote o’ the Day (Dean Meminger Edition)

Posted on August 25, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Al McGuire, Meminger’s coach at Marquette, once said he was “quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.” From Saturday’s New York Times: Dean Meminger, Who Helped Knicks to a Title, Dies at 65 Dean Meminger, a speedy guard and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Al McGuire, Dean Meminger, Dean the Dream, Fordham Prep, Lew Alcindor, Marquette, New York Knicks, New York Times, Power Memorial Academy, Rice High School | Leave a comment

C.J. Chivers, Rhymes With Shivers (Syrian Rebel ‘Dark Side’ Edition)

Posted on August 24, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The New York Times’s redoubtable war correspondent C.J. Chivers filed yet another riveting story on Friday’s front page. American Sees Dark Side of Syrian Rebels Matthew Schrier was helpless. An American photographer held in a rebel-controlled prison in the Syrian … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aleppo, Bashar al-Assad, C.J. Chivers, Matthew Schrier, New York Times, Syrian civil war, Syrian Rebelpalooza | Leave a comment