Tag Archives: New York Times

NYT: The Life And Death Of A Hockey Enforcer

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff just finished the New York Times’ three-part series, PUNCHED OUT: The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer and, man, was it jaw-dropping. The series – which occupied a full dozen pages of the Times over the past … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged C.T.E., Derek Boogaard, hockey game broke out, New York Times, NHL, Punched Out, Rodney Dangerfield | 5 Comments

There Are Eight Million Stories In The Naked City . . .

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

This is one of them, via Monday’s New York Times Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary: Setting: A yoga room at a gym on Columbus Avenue, with 25 students. Daniella: “I know you!” Me: “Really? I live on the Upper West Side.” Daniella: “Oh, sorry. I live in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 89th and 3rd, eight million stories, Metropolitan Diary, Naked City, New York Times | Leave a comment

Lowering The Barre For Product Placement

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Nifty little pas de deux between the Alvin Ailey Dance American Dance Theater and Bristol-Myers Squibb, maker of the anti-H.I.V. drug Reyataz. As the New York Times describes it: Starting in 2006, Bristol-Myers Squibb has held a contest soliciting stories of survival called Fight … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AIDS, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Bristol-Myers Squibb, H.I.V., New York Times, Reyataz, Sneak ADtack | 5 Comments

Kurt Vonnegut-Check: NYT Gets It Wrong

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

In her review of the posthumous John Updike collection Higher Gossip, New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani writes: As for fellow American writers, Updike connects the dots between their life experiences and their artistic visions. He describes Kurt Vonnegut’s view … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged All Things Considered, And So It Goes, Charles Shield, Dresden, Kurt Vonnegut, Laura Sullivan, Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, NPR, Slaughterhouse 5 | 4 Comments

Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Deplorable Mudslinging Edition)

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

The NYT-industrial complex was in high dudgeon on Sunday, with hall monitor Page One pieces in both the New York Times and the Boston Globe on the sad state of political advertising. From the Times: TV Attack Ads Aim at … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, Boston Globe, Mitt Romney, New York Times, NYT-industrial complex, Obama attack ads, Rick Perry | Leave a comment

NYT NYM Wars

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Spurred on by the New York Times, the Sneak ADtackniks have been on the nym wars lately like Brown on Williamson (see here and here). Now come the Times Sunday Review review of the topic: Sunday Dialogue: Anonymity and Incivility on the Internet Readers debate the benefits and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Christopher Wolf, New York Times, nym wars, Sneak ADtack, Sneak ADtackniks, Sunday Dialogue, Sunday review | 3 Comments

Mitt Romney: GOP Hair Apparent

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Friday New York Times Page One report: Image Expert Shapes Romney (His Hair, Anyway) BELMONT, Mass. — Voters routinely ask about it on the campaign trail. Pundits chronicle the slightest changes in its presentation. There is a Facebook page devoted … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged @Jeff_Jacoby, Leon de Magistris, Mitt Romney's hair, New York Times | 6 Comments

Campaign Outsider’s Rove-ing Reporter

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

(First in a series of posts foreshadowing former House of Bush consigliere and current GOP gunsel Karl Rove’s shady activities.) This New York Times report is mother’s milk to Karl Rove and his Super PAC American Crossroads (not to mention … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American Crossroads, Antoin Rezko, Barack Obama, Crossroads GPS, Karl Rove, New York Times, Tony Rezko | 6 Comments

Faye Dunaway’s New York Wrench-Control Apartment

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Last summer the hardworking staff chronicled actress Faye Dunaway’s dustup in Manhattan housing court about whether she had sublet her rent-controlled Upper East Side apartment to her son, Liam Dunaway O’Neill. (See: My Rental! My Sublet! My Rental! My Sublet!) … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Faye Dunaway, Faye Moveaway, Liam Dunaway O'Neill, Manhattan housing court, My Rental! My Sublet! My Rental! My Sublet!, New York Times | 1 Comment

Air Romney

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

You’ve asked for it . . . you’ve waited for it . . . you got it. Mitt Romney’s first TV spot (via the New York Times): Not surprisingly, the ad is about as credible as Romney himself. From … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, New Hampshire ad, New York Times, The Caucus | 5 Comments