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Tag Archives: New York Times
Chile’s Floyd Collins?
While shooting around on the outdoor court across from Brookline’s Pierce School, the hardworking staff caught a BBC Radio piece about the bustling community (vendors welcome!) forming around the dig site of the Chile mine rescue. (Can’t find a link … Continue reading
Bad Massachusetts Art, Good News Coverage
Friday New York Times headline: Loving the Lowbrow (It Has Its Own Hall of Fame) Nut graf: With its U.F.O.’s, suicidal clowns, smiling genitals and other shocking, humorous or bleakly sentimental imagery, “bad art” — or “vernacular painting” and “found … Continue reading
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Tagged Bigger Better Beautifuller, Hooter Lisa, Michael Frank, MoBA, Museum of Bad Art, New York Times
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Idiotic Sentence o’ the Day (pat. pending)
From a Thursday New York Times piece on Alaska arch-rivals former governor Sarah Palin and lame-duck Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Tea Bagged): They represent very different versions of Alaska. Ms. Palin grew up in Wasilla, where development dead-ends and some of … Continue reading
Our Gala Late-To-The-Party Extravaganza (Glenn Beck Edition)
The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider is not on this earth long enough to jump into the news media’s reconstruction/deconstruction of Fox Newshound Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honorpalooza in Washington, D.C. Saturday. (Abandon all hope ye who enter here.) But we will … Continue reading
Sunny Side Up For America’s Egg Farmers
Headline of a full-page ad in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal and New York Times (among others, presumably): A message from America’s Egg Farmers Body copy: You’ve probably heard about the recent egg recall. As egg farmers, we’re concerned, and continue … Continue reading
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Tagged America's Egg Farmers, British hen vaccine, egg recall, Egg Safety Center, FDA, New York Times, USDA
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Clemens-y For Roger?
All you folks out there gloating about the federal Rocket’s Dread Glare indictment of Roger Clemens might want to check out this New York Times report: Possible Flaw Could Turn Clemens Case, Expert Says Lede: When a Congressional committee summoned Roger … Continue reading
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Tagged Bud Selig, grand jury indictment, Mitchell Report, New York Times, Rocket's Dread Glare, Roger Clemens
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The WSJ/NYT Slapfight (pat. pending)
Exhibit Umpteen in the Wall Street Journal’s attempted death-by-a-thousand-paper-cuts of the New York Times: Seth Lipsky’s Weekend Edition op-ed piece. Lede: It will be hard to find a more overdue newspaper “correction” than that issued last Saturday by the New … Continue reading
This Is Exactly Why The MBTA Accepts NO Advocacy Ads
Major dustup in New York around this transit ad “submitted by a group opposed to the construction of a mosque and Islamic center near ground zero” (via Thursday’s New York Times): The back story: The [Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s] advertising firm initially … Continue reading
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Tagged American Freedom Defense Initiative, Ground Zero ad, MBTA, MTA, New York Times, Pamela Geller, Shriners
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New York Times Op-Odds Page
There seems to be a Birther Gap at the New York Times op-ed page. Sunday’s Frank Rich column: So many Republicans don’t know Obama is a natural citizen — 41 percent in a poll last week— that we must (charitably) assume … Continue reading
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Tagged birthers, CNN poll, Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Obama born in US, op-ed pages
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