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Tag Archives: New York Times
Former Adman Elmore Leonard Gets An Ad, Man
The late great Elmore Leonard, whose writing career began at a Detroit advertising agency six decades ago, gets a nice tribute ad on the back page of Thursday’s New York Times Arts section. That went nicely with the Janet … Continue reading
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Tagged Elmore Leonard, Freaky Deaky, HarperCollins, Janet Maslin, Killshot, New York Times
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Al Jazeera America Has Bad News For The Boston Herald
The hardreading staff gets four newspapers delivered to the Global Worldwide Headquarters every day: Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Times, Wall Street Journal. Guess which one didn’t have an ad promoting today’s launch of Al Jazeera America, the Qatar-based news … Continue reading
NYT ‘First Crush’ Series Crashes
Okay – this has happened to the hardworking staff and the Missus once too often. We looked at yesterday’s New York Times front page and here’s what we saw: That lede – “I’ve been writing about art professionally for more … Continue reading
New York Times Jockeys Its Way Into Native Advertising Steeplechase
Move over, BuzzFeed and Gawker. The New York Times is joining you in the branded content bakeoff. From Advertising Age: New York Times Weaves Custom Ads Into ‘Snow Fall’-Like ‘The Jockey’ ‘This Time We Learned From Our Mistakes’ “The Jockey,” The … Continue reading
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Tagged (horse)race to the bottom, Advertising Age, BMW, Buzzfeed, custom ads, Gawker, New York Times, Sneak ADtack, Snow Fall, The Jockey
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MoDo A No-Show For Bulger Trial Finale
Where’s MoDo? New York Times Op-It Girl Maureen Dowd came slumming a couple of times during the James “Whitey” Bulger hoedown and contributed, well, not much to the trial coverage. Representative sample: In return for being that most loathed thing … Continue reading
BuzzFeed Is Your Official Anthony Weiner Headquarters
The hardworking staff, recidivists that we are, has recovered from the sad demise of Google Reader and now subscribes to G2 Reader, which served up this yesterday: But wait – there’s more: Full disclosure: The hardworking staff read none of … Continue reading
A New Front (Group) In the CBS/Time Warner Cable Rumpus
First there was this full-page New York Times ad from Time Warner Cable whacking CBS for the retransmission fees it’s demanding from the cable giant. Clever, eh? And catch this in the body copy: CBS wants Time Warner Cable to … Continue reading
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Tagged American Television Alliance, CBS, New York Times, retransmission fees, Time Warner Cable, WCBS-TV
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Time Warner Cable’s CBS Retransmission Rumpus
From our Been There Done That desk Time Warner Cable is embroiled in yet another retransnsmission battle, this time with CBS in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, and elsewhere. From USA Today: Time Warner Cable drops CBS in New York, … Continue reading
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Tagged CBS, Dallas, FLIX, Los Angeles, New York, New York Times, Showtime, Smithsonian, Time Warner Cable, TMC, USA Today
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