Tag Archives: San Francisco Chronicle

Civilians Who Run Quarter-Page Ads in the New York Times (Wells Fargo Greed Edition II)

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

The latest in our long-running series about people with all those dollars and no sense As you splendid readers undoubtedly do not remember, last month the hardworking staff noted this full-page ad in the New York Times.     The ad from Texas … Continue reading →

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Civilians Who Run Full-Page Ads in the New York Times (WellsFargoGreed Edition)

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

The latest in our long-running series featuring people with all those dollars and no sense Apparently it wasn’t enough that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Woodshed) blowtorched Wells Fargo (in the person of CEO John Stumpf) for its fiscal unfitness last month. Now comes this … Continue reading →

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Northeastern University’s National Ad Campaign, Part II

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardworking staff previously noted, Northeastern University launched an advertising campaign last week that included this full-page ad in the Boston Globe, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Turns out, we didn’t know the half of … Continue reading →

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Markey/Lynch People’s Pledge: On The Ledge?

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

It’s starting to look like the People’s Pledge Ed Markey and Stephen Lynch authored – to bar third-party advertising campaigns from the Democratic primary for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat vacated by John Kerry – might be in danger of … Continue reading →

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‘Break Up The Giants!’

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff, which grew up in New York during the ’50s, never hated the Giants for moving to San Francisco in 1957. We outsourced that to our relatives in Queens, the same way we let our cousins in Brooklyn … Continue reading →

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Barry Bonds Is Not A Mensch. But Lance Williams And Mark Fainaru-Wada Are.

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

As alleged serial steroid abuser Barry (Hey, My Head’s Not That Big) Bonds stands in the dock for lying to a grand jury, it’s instructive to remember that none of this would have happened without the dogged (and daunting) efforts … Continue reading →

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The San Francisco Gone-icle

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff is in San Francisco for the National Communication Association convention (don’t ask), and so we immediately picked up Monday’s edition of the San Francisco Chronicle. You know how Gertrude Stein said about Oakland, “There’s no there there”? … Continue reading →

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