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'We're Just As Good As NYC,' Lies Rest Of New York
New York City: It is surrounded by New York state. This is the key message that state officials are hoping to communicate to you, the public, with their new and improved "I Love NY" campaign [NYT]. "There are a lot of beautiful pictures of serene mountains and lakes. How do you make your mountains and lakes different?" asked an ad exec. By polluting them with dioxin and a plethora of prescription drugs? No, it turns out the answer is to suggest that "we have the pulsating heart and soul of New York City in everything we do." In fact, it looks like the whole campaign is an attempt to slingshot some tourists out of the city for little jaunts upstate. Which will be hard, because New York state pretty much sucks. More »
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Gawker to Enter Poesy-Free Fortnight; World to Continue Spinning
We have no idea who Leon Freilich is. We have no idea why he spends his days composing bits of media news-based poetry. We have no idea why he posts those poems as Gawker comments, or sends them to Romenesko, or sends them to who knows what other sites. And we have no idea how he decides which poems go where. But we do know this: Leon Freilich is headed to Canada for two weeks, and that will leave us all doggerel-free for the duration. How do we know this? Because Leon Freilich sent us a poem, of course: More »
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