Tag Archives: NPR

Joe Boyd Gets Last Word On Nick Drake Volkswagen Ad

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Ever since the hardworking staff posted this last month, we’ve been going around the Maypole with music producer Joe Boyd about his statements in an NPR interview regarding the Boston ad agency that created the 1999 Volkswagen commercial featuring Nick … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alan Pafenbach, alternative Boston ad agency, Arnold Worldwide, Joe Boyd, Lance Jensen, Markey/Gomez rumpus, Maypole, Nick Drake, NPR, Pink Moon, Shane Hutton, Volkswagen commercial, Weekend All Things Considered | 4 Comments

Producer Joe Boyd Gets Nick Drake’s Boston History Wrong (II)

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardworking staff promised, we got in touch with the creative director of the 1999 Volkswagen commercial that featured Nick Drake’s Pink Moon: This all got started when Drake’s producer Joe Boyd said the following in an NPR … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alan Pafenbach, Arnold Worldwide, Joe Boyd, Lance Jensen, Nick Drake, NPR, Pink Moon, Shane Hutton, The Church, Volkswagen, Weekend All Things Considered | 8 Comments

Producer Joe Boyd Gets Nick Drake’s Boston History Wrong

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered on Sunday included a conversation with Joe Boyd, “[who] produced Nick Drake’s first two albums back in 1969 and 1970, and since Drake’s death has organized concerts in which a dozen or so musicians gather to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arnold Worldwide, Joe Boyd, Nick Drake, NPR, Pink Moon, The Church, Volkswagen, Weekend All Things Considered | 8 Comments

Haul Of Mirrors: The New Wave Of ‘Look What I Bought’ Videos

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

First off, the hardtracking staff admits we’re way behind the curve when we have to rely on NPR to keep us up to date. That said, here’s the latest front in the stealth marketing juggernaut: Haul Videos. Representative sample (this has 1,713,861 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Abigail Moscaritolo, All Things Considered, Caitlin Ellsworth, Federal Trade Commision, Glamourista 16, haul videos, NPR, Sneak ADtack | Leave a comment

The New New Republic Is A Potemkin Magazine

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The much-ballyhooed New Republic relaunch turns out to be a bit of a dud, at least in terms of the print edition. It started out fat, slick, and full of ads, but now it’s just fat and slick. Current issue (or … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Chris Hughes, NPR, Potemkin magazine, The New New Republic | 3 Comments

Dead Blogging The #SOTU

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Call it Barack Obama’s State of the Younion. “You” being the GOP. There were more bucks passed last night inside the House chamber than at a three-card monte game in Times Square. (If you chose “get it done” for your … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, GOP, New York Times, NPR, SOTU, State of the Union, Younion | 1 Comment

Howie Carr’s WTKK Drive-By

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Boston Herald columnist/WRKO squawker Howie Carr is experiencing an extreme bout of Howenfreude over the demise of FM talk station WTKK. (Full disclosure: The hardreading staff did a weekly segment on the Jim & Margery show.) Today’s triumphant nyah-nyah from Carr: Talk radio’s not dead, just … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 96.9, All Things Considered, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Harry Truman, Howie Carr, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Jim & Margery, Jim Braude, Margery Eagan, Namesniks, NPR, WTKK | 2 Comments

Is The Mass. GOP Laundering Money For Mitt Romney?

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Interesting NPR piece about the $236 million raised in the past few months by Romney Victory, Incorporated, “a joint fundraising committee that allows donors to give far more than the usual $5,000. Its limit is over $75,000 per person.” And … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged All Things Considered, Keith Gaddie, NPR, Romney Victory | 2 Comments

Grand Old Potemkin Pillage

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

You can set your election-year calendar by this House Republican budget kabuki (via the Boston Globe): Republican bill aims ax at NPR, public TV WASHINGTON — House Republicans unveiled legislation Tuesday to get rid of AmeriCorps, the national service program championed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, budget kabuki, Grand Old Pantomime, House Republicans, NPR, PBS | 4 Comments

Is It The God Particle, Or The Goddamn Particle?

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The media rumpus over the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson subatomic particle has now reached critical mass (yuk yuk), but one question that apparently hasn’t been settled is how it was dubbed “the God particle.” From yesterday’s Wall Street … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged All Things Considered, God particle, goddamn particle, Higgs boson, Michio Kaku, NPR, Peter Higgs, Robert Siegel, Victoria Martin, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment