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Archive for December, 2008

The Big Three: going, going…

Can clever, outside-the-box marketing help the Big Three?

McCain: The Bleeping Campaign

Where was this John McCain during the campaign?
 
When he says “bleeping campaign” - I wonder if he really means “those bleeping fools who were running my campaign”…
Good stuff.  I guess now that all his leeching handlers have packed up and gone searching for their next meal ticket, John McCain can once again go back to [...]

Dakota Culkin Hit By Car In Marina del Rey

On the heals of the Scott Ruffalo tragedy, more tough news at holiday time.
The latest:  the sudden death of Dakota Culkin, older sister of actor  Macaulay Culkin, in Marina del Rey.    It appears she stepped off a curb, and was struck by a car on Tuesday night.  She died later at the UCLA Medical Center of massive [...]

Naomi Klein, Nike & Obama

In this New Yorker profile, Naomi Klein compares successful advertising slogans…
…she [Klein] doesn’t spend time wishing Obama were more progressive. “I don’t want to appear too cynical, but when I first saw the ‘Yes We Can’ rock video that Will.I.Am made, my first response was ‘Wow, finally a politician is making ads that are as [...]

Pasadena Local News via India

Maureen Dowd  considers whether outsourcing might be a viable future paradigm for the tanking newspaper business.   She takes a look at James McPherson’s daily online magazine Pasadena Now and its novel way of gathering and reporting on news.
He fired his seven Pasadena staffers — including five reporters — who were making $600 to $800 a [...]