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Tag Archives: Wall Street Journal
Glengarry Glen Roast
The latest revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet’s landmark update of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, finally held its press opening this week, and the reviews are decidedly mixed. The major Mixmaster? New York Times theater critic Ben … Continue reading
The End Of Anonymity?
The Wall Street Journal is so serious about covering the explosion in online data tracking, the paper has even outed itself. From the WSJ’s Weekend Edition: They Know What You’re Shopping For ‘You’re looking at the premium package, right?’ Companies today … Continue reading
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Tagged BMW, Dataium, Sneak ADtack, Wall Street Journal, What They Know
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Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Alan Simpson Gangnam Style Edition)
The best thing about Peggy Noonan’s latest Wall Street Journal column is her lede, which references the breakout Gangnam video of budget-cutting bhagwan Alan Simpson (forever after to be known as AlSim): The worst part of Ms. Peggy’s column … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Simpson, fiscal cliff, Ms. Peggy, Peggy Noodnik, Peggy Noonan, The Can Kicks Back, Wall Street Journal
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For New Yorkers, It’s Good To Live In A Two-Murdoch Town
The Big Town is the Big Top for Rupert Murdoch’s newly minted News Corporation, which owns umpteen newspapers across the globe. Most notable here in the US: the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal, the Goofus and Gallant of … Continue reading
Channeling Your Outer Child
The hardworking staff was struck by this image in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal review of a new Saul Steinberg biography: Caption: Glad You Could Make It: A 1978 portrait by Evelyn Hofer in which Steinberg holds hands with a cutout of … Continue reading
Free The Marvin Miller One!
Now that the Simón Bolívar of Baseball has shuffled off this mortal coil, it’s time to install Marvin Miller in the Hardball Hall of Fame. His New York Times obituary makes an excellent case, as does this Wall Street Journal … Continue reading
An Email From Facebook? That Can’t Be Good (III)
All this week the hardtracking staff at Sneak Adtack has been on Facebook like Brown on Williamson. And here’s more fallout from The Grate Facebook Email that changes the site from a sort-of democracy to a flatout Markocracy. Via the Wall Street Journal . . … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlantic Wire, Facebook, frictionless sharing, Instagram, Liz Heron, Markocracy, privacy, Sneak ADtack, Wall Street Journal
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The Twinkie Defense
The hardworking staff truly believes there will be a Twinkie Winkie character on the Teletubbies next year, given the outpouring of juvenile nostalgia in the wake of the Hostess Implostess this past week. Exhibit A: The Weekend Wall Street Journal, … Continue reading
Why The Wall Street Journal Is Still A Great Newspaper (Holiday Books 2012 Edition)
Any booklover should check out the Weekend Wall Street Journal’s Holiday Books 2012 section. It’s a corker. And it’s even better in the print edition.
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