controversies
Flotsam & Jetsam
Are Booze Ads Making You A Drunk?
12:42AM Hamilton Nolan | Whoa: The British Medical Association is urging a complete ban on alcohol advertising and sponsorships in England, home to many drunks. But the media needs that money! Who’s more disingenuous here — ad agencies, media companies, or doctors? It’s close! More »
Big Screen
Darwin Flick Degraded By Backward American Ways
3:20PM Andrew Belonsky | Americans are, sadly, a dream deferred. We pretend that we’re the next generation of human social evolution, but, really, we’re not. That’s why we’re arguing and griping over a movie about evolution. More »
Small Screen
WWF Actually Did Know About 9/11 Ad
1:46AM Hamilton Nolan | Just to make sure everyone is extremely clear on who did what here: the World Wildlife Fund is not just an innocent victim of a bad rogue ad agency in this whole 9/11 ad fiasco. More »
Print
Crazy British Weed Makes Kids Go Loco, Moms Write Books
2:12AM Hamilton Nolan | In the UK there’s a magical strain of skunk weed: It addicts teenagers, turns them psycho, prompts their mum to write a tell-all book, and then sends the nation into an uproar over said book. And it’s coming to America! More »
Print
Journalist Fired After Exposing An Advertiser’s Crooked Practices?
8:30AM Foster Kamer | Plenty of New Yorkers are familiar with Sleepy’s, the Manny Noriega-esque monopoly on mattresses. They suck! And a longtime Hartford Courant consumer affairs columnist was fired from the paper, who they advertised with, possibly for saying and proving so. More »
Print
Yale Press Sides With Religious Fanatics Over Own Author
11:41PM Hamilton Nolan | Yale University Press is publishing a book about the Danish Muhammad cartoon controversy of 2005. But Yale will not publish any images of the cartoons, or Muhammad, because Yale University Press is run by freedom-disregarding accommodationist pussies. More »
People
Let’s Read The Paula Abdul Tea Leaves
9:13AM Richard Rushfield | Covering American Idol is often like reporting on a maze wrapped in an enigma washed down with a mystery. Could it be the entire free world—including us—was duped into thinking Paula Abdul walked away from TV’s biggest show? More »
Music
Karma Attacks, Beats Wrigley’s Chris Brown Campaign
1:59AM Hamilton Nolan | Last year, Wrigley designed the world’s most evil stealth marketing campaign ever with a fella by the name of Chris Brown. Now they’ve finally ended it. It just took a little domestic violence to convince them to stop killing music! More »
