Glynnis MacNicol, Rachel Sklar |
Posted Monday March 19, 2007 at 08:54 AM
Hillary 1984: An unauthorized campaign ad for Barack Obama has surfaced on YouTube that uses Ridley Scott's famous Apple Ad from the 1984 Superbowl, but imposes Hillary Clinton droning on where once there was Big Brother.
Experts are calling it a "watershed moment in 21st century media and political advertising." No word yet on who made the video, but we're fairly sure Bill is not going to like this, at all. [SFChronicle]
- In sickness and in health, and also during political campaigns: Dan Senor former Republican White House Aide, and husband of NBC's Campbell Brown, is one of a number of political spouses who have changed their jobs in order not raise ethical questions for their journalist spouses. Meanwhile, everyone seems to be married to a McCain operative. [LAT]
- Keeping your enemies closer: Bravo Networks, a division of NBC, has announced its acquisition of Television Without Pity, the website that has been among the network's harshest online critics. [NYT] (Variety had it last week.)
- Start spreading the news. The New York City radio station, WNYC, plans to launch its own national morning news program in direct competition to NPR's Morning Edition. BBC World Service, New York Times Radio and WGBH, the Boston public radio station as well as BBC correspondents and reporters and critics for The New York Times, will all participate in the new show, which will broadcast on WNYC-AM (820) by early next year. The new program will be aimed at a younger more multi-cultural audience and the station is currently auditioning for a host. Calling Soterios Johnson! [NYT]
- The BBC is becoming increasingly worried about the whereabouts and safety of reporter Alan Johnson who went missing in the Gaza strip last week. There have been a series of kidnappings of journalists and foreign aid workers in Palestine, but all have been released unharmed. [Guardian]
- The wisdowm of crowdsourcing: Jay Rosen's NewAssignment.net + Wired = Assignment Zero, wherein citizen journalists unite to break stories and stuff. David Carr explains. Meanwhile, on the net, people break stories and stuff. [NYT]
- Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Newsweek's got a special issue this week focusing on exercise and being healthy, and also, their cover model has a first-rate ass, if we do say so ourselves. Extra-classy move by Jon Meacham, whose editor's letter mentions Newsweek's three Ellie noms, and specifically congratulates his predecessor Mark Whitaker on the nom for best single-topic issue, who oversaw the "AIDS at 25" issue so honored. Aw. For that, you get a little 1 Cor. 9:24. [Newsweek]
- Ask not who the donkey is; are we not all the donkey? We have no idea what that means. But, that's a helluva promo, ABC! [Penguins on the Equator]
