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Todd Heisler Wins NYT ‘Year in Pictures’ Bakeoff
As you splendid readers doubtless realize by now, the hardlooking staff annually tallies the results of the New York Times Year in Pictures review. And that time-honored tradition continues with this year’s edition. Header: Tragedy. Triumph. Trump. Photographs that tell … Continue reading
U.S. Tobacco Companies Run Ads Attacking Themselves
From our M.C. Escher desk Yesterday, this full-page ad ran in about 50 major U.S. newspapers. And for the next year, this TV spot will run five times a week during prime time on ABC, NBC, and CBS. … Continue reading
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Tagged Altria, Big Tobacco, Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition, Katie Lannan, Lorillard, M.C. Escher, Master Settlement Agreement, New York Times, Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds, Richmond Times-Dispatch, RICO, Robert N. Proctor, Stanford, State House News Service, The Salem News, Tobacco Free Kids
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C.J. Chivers (Rhymes With Shivers) Is One Helluva Writer
On a beautiful sun-dappled afternoon last May, I sat on a bench in Square Henri Galli, a Paris pocket park across the Seine from Île Saint Louis, and while des enfants frolicked about, read a New York Magazine article that … Continue reading
Cornel West Wants Paul Ryan To Be President
It has come to the attention of the hardworking staff that today is Refuse Fascism Day! Who knew? Well, not to get technical about it, anyone who read Wednesday’s New York Times, which featured this full-page ad. That … Continue reading
NYT Still Can’t Find 50 People for Its $135K Worldwind Tour
As the hardworking staff noted several months ago, the New York Times Journeys travel agency has faced an uphill battle selling out its Around the World by Private Jet: Cultures in Transformation. Full-page from yesterday’s Times. The 26-day, $135,000 … Continue reading
How the Walter Becker Obits Got Steely Dan All Wrong
Sad to see that Walter Becker, the great guitarist and songwriting partner of Donald Fagen in the redoubtable Steely Dan, died last week at the age of 67. Sadder yet, most obituaries wrote off the Becker/Fagen lyrics as (in the … Continue reading
Rarer Than the Eclipse! Wall Street Journal Runs Ad in NYT!
Here’s something else you’ll see about once every hundreds years: The Wall Street Journal taking out a full-page ad in the Sunday New York Times. The hardsipping staff has no idea how many Times readers will discover the WSJwine … Continue reading
For the Last Time, People: It’s Bullwinkle T. (Not J.) Moose
Dear splendid readers, If the hardworking staff has told you once, we’ve told you one time that the name of Rocket J. Squirrel’s sidekick is Bullwinkle T. Moose. The death of the great June Foray, who voiced Rocky, has resurfaced … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventures of Dudley Do-Right, Aesop and Son, Associated Press, Bill Scott, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Bullwinkle J. Moose, Bullwinkle T. Moose, Bullwinkle The Moose, First Lady of Animated Voicing, Fractured Fairy Tales, Jay Ward, June Foray, New York Times, Peabody's Improbable History, Rocket J. Squirrel, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Rocky and His Friends, The Bullwinkle Show, Wikipedia
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NYT Editing Slashback: ‘Lawyers . . . Views Their Client’ Edition
As the hardworking staff has noted on several occasions, the New York Times has over the past few months jettisoned its “low-value line editing” and replaced it with “bespoke editing.” Cashiered Times public editor Liz Spayd wrote earlier this year that … Continue reading
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