Tag Archives: Stephen Colbert

The War Over ‘War of the Worlds’ – Myth or Math?

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Conventional wisdom holds that Orson Welles’s 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds terrorized an entire nation. Representative sample from the following day: But that’s not really what happened, as Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow chronicled in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A. Brad Schwartz, American Experience, Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles' War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News, C.E. Hooper, Fr. Coughlin, Huey Long, Jefferson Pooley, Jon Stewart, MacMillan, Michael J. Socolow, NPR, Orson Welles, PBS, Radiolab, Slate, Stephen Colbert, The Takeaway, War of the Worlds | 4 Comments

Our ‘Beat the Press Party’ Bakeoff (Stephen Colbert Edition)

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

The Thursday Curse struck again in the latest episode of the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight between the local hall monitors. Start with the Boston Herald’s Press Party, which featured this lineup in its Wayne’s World webcast on Thursday: On this … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Beat the Press, Boston Herald, CBS Late Night, David Letterman, Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight, Press Party, Stephen Colbert, Thursday Curse, Wayne's World webcast, WGBH | 4 Comments

PAC Attack! Handy Clip ‘n’ Save Guide (II)

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Oops! The hardworking staff missed this Super PAC: Pro-Stephen Colbert Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow (news) Sorry about that. Cheers, Campaign Outsider for a Better Tomorrow’s Post, Tomorrow

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Americans for a Better Tomorrow Tomorrow, Campaign Outsider for a Better Tomorrow's Post Tomorrow, Stephen Colbert, super-PAC | Leave a comment

NYT, WSJ Live In Different New Yorks

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

My late great father-in-law Marvelous Marvin Sutton used to delight in declaring at suitable intervals, “Tough sledding on Wall Street: No snow.” So it was when an Adbusters-inspired protest (#OccupyWallStreet) filled New York’s Financial District last week with hundreds (not … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged #OccupyWallStreet, Adbusters, L. Gordon Crovitz, Marvelous Marvin Sutton, New York Times, Stephen Colbert, Wall Street Journal, Zuccotti Park | Leave a comment

David Carr Gets It Wrong

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

New York Times columnist David Carr writes about Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC today (welcome to the party, DC), and as usual has some interesting things to say. Except . . . He’s got the name of the Super PAC wrong. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Americans for a Better Tomorow Tomorrow, Citizens for a Better Tomorrow Tomorrow, David Carr, New York Times, Stephen Colbert, super-PAC | Leave a comment

The Newsvertainment-Industrial Complex (Katie Eastman Edition)

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Know how advertisingandnewsandentertainment sometimes get all mixed up together? Here’s a State of the Cuisinart example. Act One Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert establishes a superpac, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow. It’s a way for Colbert to both spotlight and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Americans for a Better Tomorrow Tomorrow, Boston Herald, Colbert Report, Katie Eastman, NPR, State of the Cuisinart, Stephen Colbert | 2 Comments

Legally, Corporations ARE People

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Mitt Romney (R-People Person) has been mocked (by Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert) and sort of defended (by Media Nation’s Dan Kennedy) for telling a heckler in Iowa that “Corporations are people, my friend.” As Mr. Media Nation wrote: Romney was … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Comedy Central, corporate personhood, corporations are people, Dan Kennedy, Media Nation, Mitt Romney, Ralph Nader, Stephen Colbert | 7 Comments