Kanye West’s Double Life: Icon/Conman
Taylor Swift tormenter Kanye West is very much in the news right now, thanks to Sunday’s New York Times interview and last weekend’s Kim Kardashian delivery of his daughter. But previous to that, there...
View ArticleHark! The Herald! (Zimmerman Verdict Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk Stop the presses! The Boston Herald made The Newseum’s Top Ten Front Pages on Monday. Here’s the text . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
View ArticleBig Branding Opportunity For Pope Francis
Lots of shoutouts for the interview Pope Francis gave to Italian Jesuit journal Civiltà Cattolica this week, including this piece from Friday’s Wall Street Journal front page. Pope Warns Church...
View ArticleLAX Coverage Of TSA Shootings In NY Dailies
Friday’s TSA shootings at Los Angeles International Airport received a crazy-quilt of Page One coverage in Saturday’s New York dailies. The New York Times sort of teased it on the front page. (All...
View ArticleApparently ‘Ethical Native Advertising’ Is Not an Oxymoron
The hardtracking staff at Sneak Adtack rarely has anything good to say about native advertising, those ads in sheep’s clothing that trick out marketing material as editorial content. But here’s the...
View ArticleEditorial Cartoonists Think Alike About Eric Garner Decision
In the wake of the New York grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the choking death of Eric Garner, the hardworking staff noted similar treatment by two editorial cartoonists....
View ArticleBurying the Lede (NYT Cherry King Edition)
First in what we expect will be a long series This piece by Vivian Yee ran in Thursday’s New York Times. Except . . . Here’s the headline that appeared in the New England (and early?) edition:...
View ArticleWait-What? The Entire New York Daily News Is Worth Less Than Its Newsstand...
It’s no secret that New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman is desperate to unload his Big Town money pit tabloid, but this is ridiculous (via Capital Playbook): “Cablevision’s Dolan to bid $1 for...
View ArticleNY Tabloid Throws Brady Punch
Despite his concerted efforts to dodge questions about his good buddy Donald Trump, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady gets sacked today by the New York Daily News. Page One (via the Newseum):...
View ArticleGoFundMe Won’t Give Funds to Boston North End Bookstore
No question that fundraising platforms like GoFundMe have done a world of good all over the world. Exhibit Umpteen (via the New York Daily News): Tom Moore, known better as “Captain Tom,” will turn 100...
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