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THE AGE OF PERSUASION How Marketing Ate Our Culture By Terry O'Reilly and Mike Tennant Counterpoint. 324 pp. $26 STORYTELLING Bewitching the Modern Mind By Christian Salmon Translated from the French by David Macey Verso. 173 pp. $24.95 Once upon a timemore
New sop to China in Google censorship row
censorship. Another chapter in the ongoing battle between and the Chinese government over censorship: the search engine has stopped automatically redirecting Chinese users to its uncensored Hong Kong domain, instead providing a landing page with a giantmore
Law journal can publish information from court file: D.C. judge lifts order that attorneys, media outlets said violated First Amendment
A D.C. Superior Court judge abruptly lifted a temporary restraining order on Friday that had barred a legal journal from printing information it obtained from a court file, ending a dispute that legal observers said was destined to become one of themore
Media Advisory: Government of Canada Launches Investments in Forest Industry Transformation Program
the Honourable Stockwell Day, President of the Treasury Board will make an announcement in support of forest sector companies planning innovative projects. Location: FPInnovations Building, Lobby 2665 East Mall UBC Campus Vancouver, British Columbia Datemore
Audit Notes: Illiquid Lehman, Drumbeat.org, Markets Rule
The blogger Economics of Contempt writes that Lehman misrepresented its liquidity in the days before it failed: It?s disappointing that this issue has been almost completely overlooked, because the brazenness of their misrepresentation was shocking. Imore
The Hard Sell: Sodastream
'Many ad agency meetings now resemble the stand-up comedy circuit of the 90s' It's hard to stomach but many ad agency meetings now resemble the stand-up comedy circuit of the 90s. The childhood-favourites routine from a thousand flatlining open-mic setsmore
Piers Morgan Gets NBC Approval to Talk to CNN About King Show
By Sarah Rabil July 30 (Bloomberg) -- Piers Morgan, the Americas Got Talent judge, has been given approval by NBC to hold negotiations with Time Warner Inc.s CNN to replace talk-show host Larry King. NBC relaxed Morgans exclusivity agreement to allow himmore
WSJ Buries Wylys Story, Ignores GOP Angle
The SEC is charging the billionaire Wyly brothers with a massive fraud involving $550 million in ill-gotten gains from a scheme it says involved insider trading, overseas accounts, and front companies Big story, no? But how big? The Financial Times'smore
Christiane, I wrote you a song
By Joel Meares Among the many Christiane Amanpour tidbits doing the rounds in the lead-up to her debut on This Week Sunday, we were tickled to learn that as well as the new host, the program will get new theme music. From The Washington Post?s Themore
Making Sense of this Blog
With support from the Ford Foundation, Poynter has spent the last 18 months listening to and learning from the people behind the world of new media. We've worked with bloggers, community organizers, editors who run hyper-local sites, those who aggregatemore
Disney Names Lee to Lead ABC, Replacing McPherson
By Andy Fixmer and Anthony Palazzo (Updates with closing stock price.) July 30 (Bloomberg) -- Walt Disney Co. named Paul Lee president of the ABC Entertainment Group, replacing Steve McPherson, who resigned unexpectedly this week. Lee will oversee themore
Is Your Detergent Stalking You? (Dirt is Good)
By Laurel WentzAdvertising AgeUnilever's Omo detergent is adding an unusual ingredient to its two-pound detergent box in Brazil: a GPS device that allows its promotions agency Bullet to track shoppers and follow them to their front doors.Starting nextmore
Denny's Picks 4 Finalists
Denny's has selected four finalists to compete for creative duties on its advertising account, the client has confirmed. The shops were identified by Denny's as MDC Partners' Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners, Omnicom Group's BBDO and Interpublicmore
Aegis Buys Aussie Firm
U.K. holding company Aegis has confirmed it will acquire Australia's largest independent media buying consortium, Mitchell Communication Group, in a deal worth about $325 million. Harold Mitchell, executive chairman of the eponymous firm, will take overmore
ITV prepares pay-TV strategy
Male-orientated channel and high-definition deal on the agenda when new top team unveils plans next week ITV is to launch a new pay-TV strategy, MediaGuardian can reveal. Elements of the strategy are understood to include the launch of a new channelmore
NYT wedding announcements search engine launched
We're not "real" newson Debunking 5 Myths of Entrepreneurial Journalism Posted By: Virginia Citrano Congresswoman Jane Harmon's husband.on WP Co. said to favor Harman's offer for Newsweek Posted By: Walter Abbott III 8:29 AM Jul. 30, 2010 That's allonmore
Omaha newspaper advances WikiLeaks story with original reporting
CJR.org "The consensus was that the Pakistan angle was interesting, but that the civilian casualties thing hadn't been covered as much, and that it might be more interesting to our readers," says World-Herald military reporter Matthew Hansen . "Omaha ismore
App-makers fully geared up for Boris's cycle scheme
As London's Barclays Cycle Hire scheme launches, there's already a third-party Android app to go with it As sure as night follows day, mobile applications follow location-based public pronouncements. It should come as no surprise then that cannymore