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NYT Celebrates Itself And Sings Itself
From our Walt Whitman desk The New York Times is engaged in a Tongue War with the Wall Street Journal nowadays, and Wednesday’s edition featured the latest volley in the form of this full-page ad: Don’t take all those … Continue reading
Blue Rondo à la Turk(ey)
From our Late to the Jam Session desk Sunday’s New York Times featured this full-page ad: Here’s how the body copy begins: Rumor has it that during his visit to Istanbul, the Jazz legend Dave Brubeck heard a street musician … Continue reading
Why The New York Times Is A Great Newspaper (Nazi Art Plundering Edition)
In their prime (which is to say the 1940s), the Nazis seized roughly 100,000 works of art – worth maybe $10 billion – from German families who happened to be Jewish. This is the story of 400 of those artworks … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Rosenberg, Braque, Cezanne, Marianne Rosenberg, Matisse, Nazi art plundering, New York Times, Norway, Paul Rosenberg, Picasso, Renoir, The Crusades
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NYT Book Reviewer Deconstructs Tsarnaev Brothers’ Social Media Narrative
Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times’ intrepid book reviewer, had a front-page piece in Wednesday’s edition detailing the digital doings of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Unraveling Boston Suspects’ Online Lives, Link by Link It is America’s first fully interactive national … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Twitter, VKontakte, YouTube
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Why The NYT Is A Great Website
Above all others, the New York Times has taken to the web like a duck (web-footed!) to water (see the Pulitzer awarded to the paper’s eye-popping multimedia feature Snow Fall for further details). Now comes 4:09:43 (A Moment From the Boston Marathon, Audio … Continue reading
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Tagged 4:09:43, A Momemt from the Boston Marathon, David Abel, Katie Carmona, New York Times, Pulitzer, Snow Fall, Todd Koen
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NYT Goes To War With WSJ
From our Campaign Outsider Blogeteria desk Monday’s New York Times gave a major facial to crosstown rival Wall Street Journal in this full-page ad targeted to potential advertisers: For the fine-print impaired: The Times’s U.S. audience across desktop, smartphone and … Continue reading
Civilians Who Run Full-Page Ads In The New York Times (Norman Lizt Edition II)
Last year we introduced “[a] new feature tracking individuals who buy full-page ads in the Times, several of whom the hardworking staff has noted before but is too lazy to look up right now.” Today we have a repeat customer: Norman … Continue reading
Free The Restoration Hardware One! (Boston Edition)
The Boston Globe reported on Friday, “Restoration Hardware, tweaked and slightly humbled, is planning to finally open its new home furnishings gallery in Boston Saturday.” As the hardworking staff previously noted, the new Restoration Hardware hosted the Worst. Party. Ever. … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, New York Times, Restoration Hardware, Worst. Party. Ever.
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Why The New York Times Is A Great Newspaper (Bronx Justice Denied Edition)
Sunday’s New York Times front-paged this piece on the broken Bronx criminal courts. Waiting Years for Their Day in the Bronx Courts Outside the courtroom, the children of the murdered man waited with their mother. It had taken five years for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bronx, criminal cases, Justice Denied, New York Times, William Glaberson
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The MFA Gets Postcards, The Met Gets Picassos
An object lesson in the difference between The Hub and The Big Town: Last month the hardtrundling staff noted art-lover Leonard Lauder’s lecture about the wonderful collection of more than 100,000 postcards he’s donated to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Yesterday the … Continue reading
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