Tag Archives: Wall Street Journal

A (Jason) Gay Ole Time! (Lance/Oprah Edition)

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay has thankfully weighed in on the upcoming Lance Armstrong/Oprah Winfrey cable TV summit: What Lance Wants From Oprah I would like to go on Oprah. So would you. Don’t lie. Oprah is Oprah. Come on. … Continue reading →

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WSJ Sends Off Ada Louise Huxtable In Style

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The great Ada Louise Huxtable, who pretty much invented architecture criticism in her writing for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, has died at the age of 91. Wednesday’s Journal features an impressive tribute to Huxtable: Her Critical Judgments Were … Continue reading →

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Why The Wall Street Journal Is A Great Newspaper (New Delhi Edition)

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Since the brutal rape and murder of a young woman in New Delhi several weeks ago, there have been any number of snapshots of the victim, including this from the New York Times India Ink blog: Portrait Emerges of Victim … Continue reading →

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The Problem With (Literally) Dead Blogging

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The hardtracking staff has – in [this] venue – initiated the concept of Dead Blogging: Actually waiting for something to be over before writing about it. But this weekend’s Wall Street Journal features a different sort of dead blogging: Life and Death Online: Who … Continue reading →

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Karl Rove Doesn’t Have A Clue

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Former House of Bush consigliere Karl Rove submits a beauty in his Wall Street Journal column this week. My 2012 Mistakes and Fearless 2013 Forecast The implementation of ObamaCare will be ragged and ugly. A year ago, I offered political … Continue reading →

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AIG Pays It Backward. Sort Of.

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Wednesday’s New York Times and Wall Street Journal featured this full-page ad from AIG: AIG also ran this “Thank You, America” TV spot on New Year’s Day: So that’s all good, yes? Well, maybe not. According to Politifact.com, … Continue reading →

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Female Sportswriters (Finally) Get A Face At The Wall Street Journal

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal was Rachel Bachman’s cotillion as the first featured female sportswriter at the paper. Start out with her front-page A-Hed: Who’s No. 1 in College Football Is a Contested Issue Conflicting Title Claims Abound, Some of Them … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Warren PACs A Low-Profile Punch

Posted on December 28, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

In keeping with her Marcel Marceau press conference last month, Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren (D-I’m Not There) has relentlessly avoided the spotlight in advance of taking her U.S. Senate seat. From Thursday’s Wall Street Journal: A High-Profile Newcomer Keeps a Low … Continue reading →

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Why The Wall Street Journal Is A Great Newspaper (Newtown Victims Edition)

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Monday’s Wall Street Journal featured this heartbreaking Page One (via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages): Page 6 featured Profiles of the Victims, even more heart-breaking. The 20 children and six adults gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School included … Continue reading →

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Data-Mining Kids: Internet Players Are Agile, Mobile, And Hostile

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

That’s what legendary Texas Longhorns coach Darrell Royal said he wanted hisplayers to be – except he pronounced it a-gile, mo-bile, and hos-tile. But that’s what the Federal Trade Commission does not want current kids’ app developers to be in tracking them on tablets and … Continue reading →

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