Category: Media
Hartford Courant Nominated For Chutzpah Award For Claiming To Protect Public By Demanding It Keeps Getting $$$ For Running Legal Ads
I am nominating my old employer – The Hartford Courant – for the Chutzpah Award in advertising for 2010 for its full-page ad today asking readers to contact their state legislators.
Why? Well it seems like some legislators think that the millions of dollars spent on newspaper advertising for legal notices could be done CHEAPER on [...]
In the Snow, Thoughts Drift to Baseball — in Cuba & Morocco
There is a new snowfall to admire, a lovely coating that frosts each twig and the winter foliage. Crisply beautiful to look at, the season is appropriately cold and brisk, wintry, slippery, icy.
So it is, of course, that the mind drifts to baseball. And in my muddled mind, at least, to baseball in [...]
Delta Takes Pounding On Consumerist Website
A young girl, trying to make it to her dying father’s bedside. An old airline that can’t find your reservation. A $1200 ticket that is now a $2000 ticket. A prefabricated apology for only $50. These, are the Delta chronicles
Read the rest here at Consumer Reports Internet site, consumerist.com.
Teeth Whiteners Sold On Internet Could Clean Out Your Wallet
Lots of companies offer a trial period to buy something, leaving you with the impression that you can return it or stop using it if you don’t like it. That’s not necessarily the case with some teeth whitening products purchased on the Internet. If you want white teeth and search for a phrase like “tooth whitening,” you’ll probably get pop-ups for trial offers. Advertisements lure buyers with an offer of spending just a buck or two for a quick test, but some customers tell me they get charged a lot more.
Heat Turning Up On Connecticut Humane Society Management
The next two days apparently will be interesting at the Connecticut Humane Society, where workers, former workers, volunteers and their supporters have targeted Richard Johnston, longtime president and board chairman, for removal.
The CHS board of directors is scheduled to meet today (Tuesday), and it appears that Johnston will be grilled about accusations that were made [...]
NY Times To Charge For Internet Access
According to New York Magazine’s internet site New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. “appears close to announcing that the paper will begin charging for access to its website”
“After a year of sometimes fraught debate inside the paper, the choice for some time has been between a Wall Street Journal-type pay wall and the metered system adopted [...]
Is Courant Justified To ID West Hartford Coach Prior To A Formal Charge?
I wonder whether The Courant was doing its journalistic duty or just trying to sell newspapers at the expense of a West Hartford teacher who might have done nothing wrong, but faces destruction of his reputation.
I am referring to this morning’s CTNOW cover page story of a West Hartford teacher under investigation for sending questionable text [...]
Media Fact Checking: Rachel Maddow Shows The Way
So much journalism has become he said/she said, with no one bothering to check the facts, or even what he or she said before this.
Thanks to digital records, shows such as Rachel Maddow’s are doing this. And it is a revelation. I’ve thought for a long time that all print and broadcast media should do [...]
Grateful Dead Return As Furthur
Our West Coast Music/Radio/Entertainment/Media blogger Brad Kava brings us this video of the new band Furthur – made up of Grateful Dead members – playing in the Bay area.
Grateful Dead Members Return As FURTHUR
Used to be the Bay Area was awash with East Coasters the week between Christmas and New Year’s because the Grateful Dead put on a spectacular week of announced and unannounced shows.
Finally, after a long drought, former members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir have given fans a reason to get on the bus again. They [...]
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