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Tag Archives: New York Times
Let The Wild Chuck Hagel Rumpus Begin! (Americans For Whatever Edition)
As night follows day, two more conservative groups have emerged opposing Chuck Hagel’s nomination for Secretary of Defense. From the New York Times The Caucus blog: Conservative Groups Air Ads Pressuring Senators on Hagel Conservative groups are piling on advertising … Continue reading
Contest-Generated Ad Goes Full Circle At NYT
When is a print ad both a story and an advertisement? When the New York Times makes it so! From Wednesday’s Times Business section: On Print’s Turf, Google Wins for Creativity THE winner of a contest to encourage creativity in … Continue reading
Has The New York Times Moved To No-Jump Street?
Several years ago the Wall Street Journal instituted a no-jumps policy, as noted quite bitterly by the Columbia Journalism Review: The WSJ and the Limits of a “No Jumps” Policy Dumbing down and devaluing The Wall Street Journal We’ve talked quite a … Continue reading
NYT’s Cruise To Nowhere
From Politico’s Playbook: N.Y. TIMES GOES CRUISING: A full-page ad in Friday’s Times offers a “European Cruise” from Oct. 12-24 (England to Paris to Bordeaux to Spain to Portugal) with Elisabeth Bumiller talking defense, Timothy Egan talking opinion and David Sanger … Continue reading
RIP: Mickey D’s Wingman
Friday’s New York Times featured a full-page-ad tribute to Fred Turner, the original grillman at the original McDonald’s, who passed away this week. Nut graf: From the time our founder Ray Kroc hired Fred as a grill man at our … Continue reading
O Tempora! O Times! (A.I.G. Edition)
From our Hark! The Herald! Self Promotion desk The New York Times did a little horn tooting of its own yesterday, as Politico’s Playbook noted: NYT GETS RESULTS – N.Y. Times B1, bottom of page, “A.I.G. Says It Will Not … Continue reading
WSJ Sends Off Ada Louise Huxtable In Style
The great Ada Louise Huxtable, who pretty much invented architecture criticism in her writing for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, has died at the age of 91. Wednesday’s Journal features an impressive tribute to Huxtable: Her Critical Judgments Were … Continue reading
Why The Wall Street Journal Is A Great Newspaper (New Delhi Edition)
Since the brutal rape and murder of a young woman in New Delhi several weeks ago, there have been any number of snapshots of the victim, including this from the New York Times India Ink blog: Portrait Emerges of Victim … Continue reading
The Creepiest Place on Earth: The MagicBand Kingdom
Disney World is now Digi World, as this New York Times piece reports: At Disney Parks, a Bracelet Meant to Build Loyalty (and Sales) ORLANDO, Fla. — Imagine Walt Disney World with no entry turnstiles. Cash? Passé: Visitors would wear rubber bracelets encoded … Continue reading
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Midnight For Paris
Funny – the Missus and I just saw the eminently watchable Midnight in Paris, which as usual triggered the Big Town vs. the City of Light Service debate. Now comes this letter from Charmaine Teodoro in Monday’s New York Times Metropolitan … Continue reading
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