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...matter. These ads seem more ripe for mocking than for making people buy newspapers. So that's what this group of mostly New York-based comedians and actors did under the direction of Michael Showalter of Wet Hot American Summer fame. The spoof even pokes hilarious fun at the paper and its advertising methods in a meta way! It's actually an ad for an arts and entertainment venue in New York City and it includes people like Paul Rudd, Mike Birbiglia, Andrea Rosen, Michael Ian Black and a bunch of people who probably roll in an insider comedian circle...
What was your first job? I don't remember what the word is in English, but you know those things they put around babies' necks when they eat? A bib? Those things. But the ad is still on, to this day. It's really weird. They're still using that, 23 years later...
...Daschle, Tom • 1986 campaign ad by mocking the "BMWs and limos" driven by the powerful in Washington is now hilarious • Obama was informed of tax problems of in less-than-timely manner...
...easy Internet ad dollars of the late 1990s enticed newspapers and magazines to put all of their content, plus a whole lot of blogs and whistles, onto their websites for free. But the bulk of the ad dollars has ended up flowing to groups that did not actually create much content but instead piggybacked on it: search engines, portals and some aggregators...
...requiring a monthly subscription. When Rupert Murdoch acquired the Journal, he ruminated publicly about dropping the fee. But Murdoch is, above all, a smart businessman. He took a look at the economics and decided it was lunacy to forgo the revenue - and that was even before the online ad market began contracting. Now his move looks really smart. Paid subscriptions for the Journal's website were up more than 7% in a very gloomy 2008. Plus, he spooked the New York Times into dropping its own halfhearted attempts to get subscription revenue, which were based on the (I think flawed...