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...defunct Arkansas Gazette who in 1957 stood against segregation in the face of racist mobs that, in defiance of a 1954 Supreme Court ruling, tried to block black students from matriculating at Little Rock's Central High School; in Little Rock, Ark. The paper suffered circulation and ad- revenue losses exceeding $1 million for its stance on the issue but later won two Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of the federal-state confrontation...
...that will enable 1,000 activists "to give my slide show in their voices," with a limited-use license to remix its music and images. But the best measure of the potential impact of the Gore film may be the fact that there's already an oil-industry-financed ad campaign to discredit...
...going to be one nasty encounter. Duracell and Energizer, which enjoy about 29% and 25% market share, respectively, are two of the best-marketed brands in the U.S. Duracell, a.k.a. "the CopperTop battery," now owned by Procter & Gamble, has won five Effie Awards since 1992 for most effective ad campaign. As for Energizer, part of Energizer Holdings, its roaming pink bunny is a marketing icon. The 17-year-old Energizer Bunny is part of the vernacular, used to describe anything that continues relentlessly--sports figures, campaigning politicians, your motormouthed cousin...
...DIED. Joyce Ballantyne Brand, 88, commercial artist who created the now-iconic Coppertone suntan lotion ad featuring a young girl whose bathing suit is being pulled down by a dog, exposing tan lines, accompanied by the slogan, "Don't be a paleface"; in Ocala, Florida. The illustrator, who did campaigns for Pampers and Coca-Cola and also painted pinup girls , employed her daughter Cheri, then 3, as the model for the famous ad. Cheri "worked cheap and was convenient," Brand said...
...that is one reason Brown is spending part of the afternoon with 40-odd police supervisors, talking about crime trends. Another is that his main opponent in the race for the Democratic nomination in the state's attorney-general race, Los Angeles city attorney Rocky Delgadillo, aired an ad in mid-May accusing Brown of proposing to slash funding for Oakland cops. Although Brown did propose cuts in 2003, the police budget has grown more than 50% since 1999. Brown has pushed the force to transfer officers from desk jobs to street patrols, and he backed a 10 p.m. curfew...