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Tag Archives: New York Times
Why The NYT Is A Great Newspaper (They Kill Horses, Don’t They? Edition)
From Sunday’s New York Times: Mangled Horses, Maimed Jockeys The new economics of horse racing are making an always-dangerous game even more so, as lax oversight puts animal and rider at risk. Nut grafs: On average, 24 horses die each … Continue reading
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Tagged Buzz Machine, horse deaths, Jeff Jarvis, New York Times, The gatekeeepers, Walt Bogdanich
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The Weekly Standard Pimps Out Its Cover
Imagine the hardworking staff’s surprise when the March 26 edition of The Weekly Standard arrived at the Global Worldwide Headquarters and we saw this: (Apologies for the amateur cellphoto.) That’s the first of a four-page ad wrapper for the National Federation … Continue reading
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Tagged National Federation of Independent Business, New York Times, NFIB, ObamaCare, Weekly Standard
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LinsADity!
New York Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin is the new Lindorser for Volvo, as Bloomberg New reports: Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks signed a two-year contract to promote Volvo Cars in China and the U.S. Lin, a 23-year-old Harvard University graduate, sparked the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomberg News, flash-Lin-the-pan, Jeremy Lin, Linsanity, NBA, New York Knicks, New York Times, Volvo
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Why Did The NYT Give Bill Maher A Free Pass?
Riddle us this: How does Bill Maher get a New York Times op-ed piece calling for a moratorium on apologies for intemperate language without the Times noting that Maher is smack dab in the middle of an intemperate-remarks rumpus of … Continue reading
Boston Ad (Wo)Men Recreate “Mad Men” Era
From our Everything “Mad Men” Is New Again desk The New York Times reports that the fifth season premiere of AMC’s Mad Men is the real March Madness. After ‘Mad Men’ Drought, Hoping to Slake a Thirst The fifth season … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Business Journal, Daily Beast, Hill Holliday, Karen Kaplan, Mad Men, New York Times, Newsweek
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Daisey Chain Entangles David Sedaris
The Mike Daisey rumpus over his fabrications about Apple’s manufacturing practices has put formerly bulletproof David Sedaris in the crosshairs. But not with everyone. From David Carr’s New York Times column today: Mr. Daisey’s one-man show, “The Agony and the Ecstasy … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, David Carr, David Sedaris, Marketplace, Mike Daisey, New York Times, Rob Schmitz, Steve Jobs, This American Life
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NYT Goes South On Gingrich
If you want a snapshot of the mainstream media’s wishlist right now, check out this screengrab of the New York Times website around 1:30 Wednesday morning: Get the feeling the Times is salivating for a one-on-one race between Santorum and … Continue reading
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Tagged Mitt Romney, New York Times, Newt Gingrich, one-on-one race, Rick Santorum
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Arts Seen In The Big Town
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town and our first stop was The Armory Show at Piers 92 and 94. And it is a 10. There were 228 dealers there (according to the New York Times … Continue reading
NYT Bows To Pressure, Bars Campaign Outsider
When we last left the dogged opinion-mongering (or is that mongreling?) of Gail Collins, the hardworking staff had posted a comment on the New York Times website protesting her exclusion of our excellent Seamus Sweepstakes™ from yesterday’s column and said … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Burns, Brian Dawson, Buzzfeed, Dave Weigel, Gail Collins, New York Times, Seamus Swepstakes™, Twitter
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Campaign Outsider 