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According to this NYT story, tastefulness will be the operative phrase for the greatest day of the year in U.S. TV commercials! An excerpt: nheuser-Busch, the biggest advertiser on the Super Bowl, the biggest day of the year for advertising, is making good on a promise to clean up its act. A look at some commercials [...]
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According to an item in Report on Business's Feed The Goat column, CanWest wants to get into the commuter tab business in five Canadian cities. They've managed to find a leader: Noah Godfrey, son of CanWest board member Paul Godfrey (former TorSun publisher, Lastman puppetmaster etc., etc.). The name (hopefully a working title), is Dose. I can only say [...]
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New circulation numbers suggest the Toronto Sun is the paper losing the most circulation ground in the hotly contested Toronto newspaper market, according to a Globe and Mail story. An excerpt: The Toronto Sun saw its circulation decline in the year ended Sept. 30, as the paper lost ground against its rivals in Canada's biggest [...]
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Calling Pope John Paul II the “Brezhnev of the Vatican” will apparently get you a trip in front of a judge in Poland. Read more about the case of Jerzy Urban. Here's an excerpt from the BBC story: Pope satirist convicted in Poland Urban insisted he was just exercising freedom of speech One of Poland's [...]
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