Tag Archives: Twitter

Free The White House Correspondents Whatever!

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The White House press corps has revolted against the Obama administration and it’s about time. From MediaBistro’s FishbowlDC: WHCA Throws Photos in Administration’s Face A small thing, but a loud gesture. The White House Correspondents’ Association is stripping all official … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABC News, Advise the Adviser, Facebook, Flickr, Josh Earnest, Obama administration, Twitter, West Wing Week, WHCA, White House Correspondents' Association, White House Press Office, YouTube | 2 Comments

Herald Still Ain’t Seguin What Tyler Tweeted

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardreading staff noted yesterday, the Boston Herald has been uncharacteristically shy about quoting former Boston Bruin Tyler Seguin’s latest homophobic Twitter puck-up. Yesterday’s print edition of the feisty local tabloid didn’t even mention the incident, while this AP story on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AP, Boston Bruins, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Dallas Stars, Full Metal Jacket, gay slur, homophobic tweet, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, steers and queers, Twitter, Tyler Seguin | 4 Comments

NYT Book Reviewer Deconstructs Tsarnaev Brothers’ Social Media Narrative

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times’ intrepid book reviewer, had a front-page piece in Wednesday’s edition detailing the digital doings of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Unraveling Boston Suspects’ Online Lives, Link by Link It is America’s first fully interactive national … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amazon, Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Twitter, VKontakte, YouTube | 3 Comments

WSJ Left Hand, Meet WSJ Right Hand (Marathon Bomber Edition)

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From our Right Hand Doesn’t Know What the Left Hand Is Doing desk Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens, who’s damned good and has a newly minted Pulitzer to prove it, wrote this yesterday: The Evil in Boston Before we … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2004, Boston Marathon bombing, Bret Stephens, Dallas Lawrence, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Jerusalem bus, Michael Chertoff, Pulitzer, suicide bombing, Twitter, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment

Maria Menounos Is A Twitter Mole

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Last week the hardtracking staff detailed the stealth marketing efforts of Maria Menounos (“American actress, journalist, television presenter and occasional professional wrestler”) for discount retailer Marshalls. Now comes her sneaktweet for Nike (via the Boston Herald). From Monday’s edition: Menounos tweet . . … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Herald, Maria Menounos, Marshalls, Nike, Sneak ADtack, tweetslut, Twitter | 3 Comments

WordPress To Go Native (Advertising)?

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider has long chronicled the vagaries of WordPress in a series themed Don’t Look a Gift Host in the Mouth. Now it’s the hardtracking staff’s turn. From paidContent: Where WordPress is headed: Longform content, curation and maybe even native ads … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Campaign Outsider, Don't Look a Gift Host in the Mouth, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, paidContent, Sneak ADtack, Twitter, Wordpress | Leave a comment

Gabriel Gomez Pays To Tweet

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Gabriel Gomez, who’s trying to buy enough signatures to get himself on the ballot for the U.S. Senate special election we have every couple of years, won’t give media interviews, but he will pony up for tweets. Mr. Gomez – … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Gabriel Gomez, GOP primary, Navy SEAL, promoted tweets, Twitter, U.S. Senate special election | Leave a comment

Brown Out At The Boston Globe

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

One little word was big enough to make page 3 of today’s Boston Herald: ‘Bqhatevwr’ he said Scott Brown’s Twitter troubles light up Web with jokes Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown set off an Internet sensation early yesterday after a string of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, boston.com, bqhatevwr, Huffington Post, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Scott Brown, Twitter | 4 Comments

The Search For The Black Mental Health Alliance Of Massachusetts

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardworking staff noted yesterday, there’s been something of a web kerfuffle over the Saggy Pants Video released on Tuesday by the Black Mental Health Alliance of Massachusetts. In addition to The Atlantic, Mediaite, the National Review Online and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Black Mental Health Alliance of Massachusetts, BMHAM, Facebook, Mediaite, National Review Online, saggy pants video, The Atlantic, Twitter | 1 Comment