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What did you think of the ad about Tennessee Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr., which had a white woman saying, "Harold, call me"? While it did not seem to me to be as devastating and as racist as I would think in first reviewing it, after having Southerners - white and black - share with me the deep-seated fear whites [have] of black men and white women, I then came to the conclusion that the ad meant to do harm from racial implication...
...writing about a product or service. "They can't ask questions, but they can listen in," says Sifry. Paying advertisers can buy sponsored links, which encourage Technorati visitors to check out what bloggers are saying about something, like the movie Fast Food Nation, featured in a recent sponsored ad...
When the Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, went on the block, it was another response to stockholders' insatiable demand for rising returns, even for papers with loyal readership and steady ad support. But now that a bevy of bigwig buyers are itching to own prestigious dailies, newspapers in key markets may benefit from a return to private ownership. Why would baron bidders like Hank Greenberg, Jack Welch and David Geffen--who have expressed interest in the Tribune Co., the Boston Globe and the L.A. Times, respectively--rush in to bet on slow-growth...
Newspaper ads still generate $48 billion a year, three times the amount spent for online ads, which is why ad-driven Net companies like Google, Yahoo and Monster.com have spent the past few months setting up partnerships with print publishers. Yahoo signed 176 papers for a deal to post classifieds online, and Google is helping an additional 50 use the Web to sell their ad space more efficiently. That's a crucial development because the recent stagnation in print-ad revenue has been aggravated by the industry's archaic sales system, which has made it difficult for small businesses...
Most of us write it off, in one way or another: as résumé-padding for the political types; as a black hole for good money, good ideas and good intentions; as a self-satisfying parliamentary procedure workshop; as inept, corrupt, self-important, and so on, ad infinitum...