Archive for May, 2009

National Briefing | Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania: Apology Over an Ad That Called for Obama?s Assassination


May 30th, 2009

A local newspaper in northwest Pennsylvania apologized for running a classified advertisement that called implicitly for the assassination of President Obama.

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By-the-Book Reader Meets the Kindle


May 29th, 2009

Even if you are an unreconstructed book lover, the future might not be as hard to get used to as you imagined.

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Memo From Tokyo: In Reporting a Scandal, the Media Are Accused of Just Listening


May 29th, 2009

A highly publicized corruption investigation has weakened Japan?s opposition party, but many worry about the failure of the news media to press the prosecutors for answers.

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Google Sitelinks for Directory-Level Pages


May 29th, 2009

Monitoring important directory levels of a domain should become an immediate strategy consideration for all large companies performing SEO, not to mention anyone with a site that has the structure and authority to merit sitelinks at the root domain. …

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Ranking in Local Listings


May 29th, 2009

Why are local listings important? It’s all about consumer usage. With so many consumers seeking local listing information, it’s vital that advertisers with local entities proactively manage and improve their listings’ accuracy to help gain favorable positions. …

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Microsoft?s Search for a Name Ends With a Bing


May 29th, 2009

Microsoft hopes Bing, the name of its new search service, eventually becomes a verb, like Xerox and, well, Google.

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Advertising: Campaigns Address Today?s Anxieties by Looking Back


May 29th, 2009

The commercials and print ads represent attempts to address today?s anxieties by taking an optimistic look back at the Depression era.

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Time Warner Board Backs AOL Spinoff


May 29th, 2009

The move comes eight years after the companies merged in a multibillion-dollar deal that came to symbolize an entire era in American business.

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Declining Book Sales Cast Gloom at an Expo


May 29th, 2009

Authors, publishers and booksellers gathered for their annual convention amid news that sales had fallen 1.5 percent to just over 3 billion copies last year.

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Cigarettes in Popular Films Are Target of Health Groups


May 28th, 2009

The advocacy arm of the American Medical Association unveiled a campaign intended to publicly shame movie studios for depicting images of smoking.

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