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NYT Ad for Jerry Seinfeld’s Netflix Show Says: ‘Think Smile’
Jerry Seinfeld’s wildly popular Netflix series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee has just dropped its new season on the Streaming Service That Ate Television, which ran this ad in yesterday’s New York Times. That is, of course, a takeoff … Continue reading
Herald Held Hostage By Reality, Day One
Stop the presses! The Schadenfreude Gazette has actually stipulated to the facts about the imminent sale of crosstown rival Boston Globe. From today’s edition of the feisty local tabloid: Rupert Murdoch has ‘no interest’ in the Boston Globe Media titan quashes talk of bid … Continue reading
Retailers Get with the Program(s)
This fall, major department stores will be offering some exciting new brands: TV and web networks. Via MediaBistro’s PRNewser: The NBC network and Bloomingdale’s have entered into a two-month Fall partnership that will provide branding opportunities for both organizations: Bloomie’s catalogs will feature actors from some … Continue reading
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Variety Whacks Boston Globe Editorial Page
Variety’s Brian Lowry tags the Boston Globe for publishing the “dumb newspaper editorial of the day.” Thanks to Jim Romenesko for flagging the dumb newspaper editorial of the day, courtesy of the Boston Globe, which conflates Washington Post critic Tom Shales’ … Continue reading