META-DAD (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... boxes (flatten it out to fit more!) Gift boxes Gift catalogs Newspapers filled and all of those advertising inserts Wrapping paper (non-metallic only) Non-metallic greeting cards How to Trim Your Waste-Line This Holiday Season ; BYOB- Bring Your Own (shopping) Bag for every shopping excursion—make this a habit all year long. Send e-cards instead of paper cards (or at least make sure...
Monroe on a Budget (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
... press time by an hour and a half because our staff needs that much extra time to get all the advertising inserts stuffed before the carriers get their paper bundles. Yes, that is the plan again this year. (We don’t print a paper on Thanksgiving Day.) And The Lansing State Journal reports on its Deals and Don’ts blog that 51 advertising inserts are scheduled in its Thanksgiving...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... you need to jump on it.” SundaySaver.com & SalesCircular.com The Sunday newspaper is loaded with advertising inserts that let you know what’s on sale at local stores. Maybe you don’t get the paper. Maybe you threw out the circulars. No problem. These sites let you see those sale items. You can choose national retailers or limit your search to stores in your state.Check out the section...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... to sway the presidential election to Senator John McCain by distributing DVDs of Obsession as an advertising insert in 70 newspapers to coincide with the anniversary of 9/11. Obsession, which was produced in 2005 well before Senator Obama announced his candidacy, makes no mention of the President-elect or his positions on terrorism. The film relies on the actual words of radical Islamists...
Glass City Jungle (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
I received this by email and it made me think back to when the Blade decided to include the DVD “Obsession” as a paid insert. There was one article but it was written as a part of coverage of a press conference held by those in the community, muslim and others who took issue [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
... with the anniversary of 9/11, The Clarion Fund distributed 28 million DVDs of Obsession as an advertising insert in 70 papers across the country. In response, CAIR has organized a smear campaign to attack Obsession in the media as hate speech. This defamatory claim is designed to distract the public from examining the threat of radical Islam. "We want the American people to see our...
The Doc Searls Weblog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
... out I bought a Sunday Sun at a nearby Starbucks for $1.88 ($2 with tax), field-stripped out the advertising inserts, and read pretty much everything that interested me in the time it took my wife and kid to order and pick up their drinks, and brought it home. There just wasn’t much there. Very disappointing. Back at the ranch my son-in-law told me that the Sun had laid off over half...
Exile on Jones Street (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
On occasion, I get a little grief and guff because I have a penchant for studying newspaper advertising inserts. I consider them an excellent insight into several aspect of our culture, the economy and the intersection of the two. Last week I started noticing that the Target circular shifted from being all about the latest [...]
Bill's 'Faith Matters' Weblog (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
A month or so ago, I received a call from a distressed reader who told me about receiving a DVD called "Obsession," which was stuffed as an advertising insert to the New York Times, to which she subscribes. I hadn't...
ac360blog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
... some 28 million Obsession DVD’s, made by Israeli filmmaker Raphael Shore, were distributed as advertising-inserts in 70 papers primarily in critical swing states including Colorado, Florida, and Ohio. All of it was paid for by the Clarion Fund, a non-profit group established by the Israeli filmmaker with the stated goal of exposing the threat of radical Islam. Clarion spokesman Gregory...
