Quick: Which one of these two boxes is an ad, and which is official Times Web content? Both ran in a column down the right side of an nytimes.com business news article, both have headlines in sans-serif font, both use the exact same link colors. It turns out the one with the big corporate logo (on the right) is actually the editorial content, while the one designed to look like a trustworthy Times table of contents is actually an ad, taking the reader to awful, faux-objective content like this. Congratulations, Times. I read a lot of fairly scuzzy media websites in the course of a day, and I've never been tricked quite this completely. Or as Ashton Kutcher likes to call it, "Link'd."
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Advertising And Editorial Blur At The Times [Do Not Want]
Posted: July 8th, 2008, 3:57am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: do Not want
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How Not to Pitch a Dance Party [Do Not Want]
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 11:41am CDT by Sheila
Tags: do Not want
New York's Dance Parade—a parade about dancing and against the city's outdated cabaret laws—is a cool idea, but this bossy e-mail missive to promote it is the worst: "I need your support with this dance parade thing. Monetary or just blast it for me. I know that you charge for this [We don't] but I have no budget to actually pay. I am working so hard to save our way of life... This directly affects you, shit without socialdancing your (sic) out of a job." No, without internet advertising I'm out of a job. Socialdancing is a mere perk.
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Radio Perez Validates All Blogs [Do Not Want]
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 3:27am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: do Not want
Thank heavens for celebrity gossip Perez Hilton and his new radio deal, because otherwise there would be no one to "show how the blogosphere is generating new talent for the traditional media," as the Wall Street Journal puts it. Perez will make three-minute radio shows for stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere, for use during rush hours. He's also starring in a summer movie called Gays Gone Wild and has a book deal. Hilariously, the Journal said Perez wants to "carefully cultivate" his public image, just like Paris Hilton. Also, This Changes Everything:
The show, "Radio Perez," marks the debut offering from "C" Student Entertainment Corp., a radio and mobile-focused programming provider created by Steve Lehman, former chairman and chief executive of Premiere Radio Networks, and Andy Schuon, former head of programming at MTV, MTV2, VH1 and Infinity Broadcasting, now CBS Radio.
"We're going to prove that [the blogosphere] is a place where you can find talent," said Mr. Schuon.[WSJ]
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NY'ers In Peace-Wanting Shock! [Do They Know It's Christmas]
Posted: December 21st, 2007, 3:06pm CST
Tags: all i want is what
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Roving, pedestrian hassling videographer Alex Goldberg spent some time in SoHo and Union Square asking passersby what they wanted for the holidays. While many people want to be left alone by dudes with video cameras, a few want world peace, and one gentleman just wants to be loved, and to hear himself speak.
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Do Not Want: "In town for a new product launch this week, ...
Posted: October 5th, 2007, 9:30am CDT
Tags: do Not want
"In town for a new product launch this week, Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz implied that New Yorkers were wholeheartedly embracing the changing character of their city. Asked just how many Starbucks locations he thinks the city can support, Schultz discussed the many emails he gets requesting new stores." Uh, yeah. If there are any New Yorkers out there who have sent Howard Schultz an e-mail asking for YET ANOTHER STARBUCKS, we want you to come down to the office this afternoon. We'd like to a) verify that you really exist and b) stab you in the genitals with a rusty hacksaw. [AMNY]
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Harvard Brats: Lou Dobbs' Spawn Goes To A Little School In Boston
Posted: August 31st, 2007, 12:10pm CDT
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Both a recent Page Six item and the Times' piece on the Hampton Classic horse show yesterday made heavy mention of CNN ranter Lou Dobb's daughter, Hillary, and her enrollment in a little school in Boston which was founded in 1636. As per Page Six, after winning $12,900 in prize money at the Classic (the girl loves to ride stallions!), Daddy Dobbs had something to say!"She won! We're very excited, but now she has to decide her major as she enters into her sophomore year at Harvard."
God, it kind of makes you feel bad for anyone who watches CNN. "Stay tuned. After this short commercial break, I'll rail against immigrants and my daughter, who is going to Harvard, will decide her major. This is Lou Dobbs (Class of '67) for CNN."
Does he have some product placement deal or something?
Sadly, the interests listed on daughter Dobb's MySpace page ("5' 7" / More to love!") don't seem to offer any clues as to in what subject she might major. "Riding, singing, shopping, listening to music, driving with the windows down" aren't listed as majors in Harvard's coursebook. Yet.
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The Perils Of Manscaping: "Hundreds of people were walking by me and ...
Posted: August 10th, 2007, 1:00pm CDT
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"Hundreds of people were walking by me and there I was in plain view with the area of my pants around my crotch soaked while one of my hands was covered in blood." [CBITC]
