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It’s InternADtional Women’s Day at the New York Times!
As the New York Times notes in this piece today, the 2018 version of International Women’s Day has a special dimension to it. International Women’s Day 2018: Beyond #MeToo, With Pride, Protests and Pressure ROME — In the era of … Continue reading
Serena Williams Now Looks to Re-produce On the Tennis Court
For those of you keeping score at home, it’s been five months since Serena Williams almost died giving birth to her daughter, Olympia. But now Williams is ready to see her tennis career reborn, as Sports Illustrated notes. Williams restarts … Continue reading
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Tagged Academy Awards, Indian Wells, New York Times, Nike, Olympia, Oscars, Serena Williams, Sports Illustrated, Until We All Win, WTA
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Where in the World Is Janet Langhart? Back on Tour with Anne Frank & Emmett Till
The hardworking staff is certain you splendid readers remember Janet Langhart (currently Janet Langhart Cohen), whose Boston resumé includes a 1981 stint on WCVB’s “Five All Night” with Matt Siegel – and a bonus Robin Young cameo (at 3:57). … Continue reading
Sacklers Buy More ‘Adulgences’ for Triggering the Opioid Crisis
As the hardtsking staff has previously noted, there’s ample evidence that the fabulously wealthy Sackler family, which unleashed OxyContin on an unsuspecting American public, played a key role in the country’s current opioid crisis. And yet . . . Their … Continue reading
Strange Adfellows for Net Neutrality: AT&T and . . . Burger King?
As the rumpus over the fate of net neutrality continues, it’s not just 21 states and the District of Columbia pushing back against the FCC decision to neuter neutrality. It’s also advertisers. Exhibit AT&T: This full-page ad that’s been running … Continue reading
Donald Trump’s Hooded Father Got Busted at a 1927 Klan Riot
From our Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree desk As the world wonders whether the president of the United Staes is a racist, the hardworking staff was reminded of Adam Hochschild’s piece in the New York Review of Books last … Continue reading
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Tagged 1927, Adam Hochschild, Donald Trump, Felix Harcourt, Fred Trump, Ku Klux Klan, Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s, Linda Gordon, Mike Pearl, New York Review of Books, New York Times, snopes.com, The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition, Trump racist, Vice
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WSJ Print Advertising Touts WSJ-Produced Native Advertising
From the Russian Nesting Ads desk at Sneak Adtack This week the Wall Street Journal started running tag-team ads in its print edition that direct readers to digital ads created by the paper’s in-house native advertising shop. This quarter-page ad, for … Continue reading
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Tagged Axios, Cole Haan, Fitch Group, ICSC, International Council of Shopping Centers, J Crew, Lands' End, Neiman Marcus, New York Times, Russian nesting ads, Scott Galloway, Sears, Sneak ADtack, State of the Cuisinart Marketing, Talbots, The Four, The Retail Implosion, Wall Street Journal, WSJ Custom Studios, WSJ.
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Time’s Up for Lena Dunham in the Ranks of the Sisterhood
Harvey Weinstein Fallout, Exhibit Umpteen: A group of high-profile show business women have formed a group called Time’s Up, which describes itself as “a unified call for change from women in entertainment for women everywhere.” New York Times culture reporter … Continue reading
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