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At least nobody was hurt this holiday season.
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dmac | 12:36 PM | 2 Comments
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Although Jesus brought all of us lots of Christmas presents, I am still a little bummed about the biggest loss of the holiday season: the one-week lack of Metro.
Indeed, Philadelphia’s free daily tab is not publishing this week, leaving me with even less material in an already news-free week. But fear not! Even though there’s no Metro this week, I’ll be delivering what you would have read were there an edition. Today I’ll start with none other than the “Today’s Debate,” always a Philadelphia Will Do favorite:
See? It’s like it never left!
Metro Philly
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dmac | 12:09 PM | 0 Comments
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Dec
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 • Congratulations to the Inquirer for doing a story about New Yorkers moving to Philadelphia and not mentioning the sixth borough. But did you have to make the story take up 75% of the front page? [Inky]
• The No. 9 Bucks County moment of 2005, according to the Bucks County Courier Times: Anthony Federov, American Idol contestant from Trevose. Indeed. [BCCT]
• That NBC show, Deal or No Deal? Yeah, it got good ratings. Sometimes you just want to take this country by its neck (Florida?) and give it a good shaking. [Hollywood Reporter via CNN.com]
• The whole Tyree (Cousin of Rasheed) Wallace shooting lets Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson focus on the important issues: How newspaper headlines offend him. [DN]
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dmac | 11:08 AM | 1 Comment
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Dec
27
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You may have noticed that the philadelphiawilldo.com domain isn’t working right now and only willdo.philadelphiaweekly.com is. We all have, too, and it’s being worked on. In the meantime, any photos with old posts won’t show up. Also, I can’t get my mail. Everything else should be functional.
Anything pressing — ha! — just email me at dmcquade@philadelphiaweekly.com.
Update: It’s fixed! Hurrah!
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dmac | 9:58 AM | 0 Comments
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Dec
27
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 A story in yesterday’s Inquirer noted that the National Guard is now now advertising on pizza boxes and offering free iTunes downloads in order to attract new recruits. Previously, the National Guard was a pretty nice option for some people, but now with the chance of being sent off to war instead of some training ground, well, the numbers in the National Guard are dropping like President Bush’s approval ratings.
I’ve seen the three free iTunes downloads if you sign up for info advertisement before, but the pizza box setup has eluded me so far. (At left is an image of a pizza shop in China, so our boys know what they’re fighting against!) The Inky says the ad has a photo of a young (presumably attractive) woman, with a message saying that if you join the Guard, they’ll pay you and help pay for college.
The boxes mainly are placed at mom-and-pop pizza joints in college towns, a strategic move due to the “well-established pizza-ingestion habit” of college kids, according to the Inquirer.
All well and good. They have pizza, iTunes and a NASCAR team. But what’s next for the new frontier of Guard advertising? A Northwestern prof has an idea: “I’d like see an ad with somebody listening to Mozart and reading Milton or Shakespeare.”
Next up: National Guard pogs!
Guard turns to pizza, iTunes for recruiting [Inky]
Sept. 29: Had I known there was a war going on…
Image by ethergo
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dmac | 9:50 AM | 0 Comments
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Dec
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 This, well, bone-chilling news broke over the weekend: KYW 1060 is now the official zombie radio station of Philadelphia. We already knew this town was Zombie City, USA. And now we have more proof, from Michael Klein’s Christmas Day column in the Inquirer:
When Viacom Inc. changed the name of its radio group from Infinity to CBS a few weeks back, KYW-AM (1060) had to tweak its familiar ID, in which announcer Dick Covington begins: “This… is… Newsradio.” You might think such a change would be a challenge because the golden-piped Covington died in March 2004. Program director Steve Butler had an out. Before Infinity took over in the late 1990s, the station owner briefly went by “CBS.” A Covington “CBS Radio” clip was found in the archives, and an engineer laid the music over it.
Then again, it’s not just Philly: this is the zombie newsradio… serving Pennsylvania, New Jersey… and Delaware.
Radio waves [Inky, fifth item]
Zombie City, USA [PW]
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dmac | 9:25 AM | 0 Comments
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Dec
27
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An early Christmas present from the Philadelphia Daily News appeared on Christmas Eve:
A story in yesterday’s paper concerning a double shooting in West Oak Lane should have stated that Tyree Wallace, not Police Sgt. Mike Mitchell, was a senior at Arcadia and a graduate of Roman Catholic High School.
And a partridge in a pear tree.
Correction 12.24.05 [DN]
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dmac | 9:16 AM | 0 Comments
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Dec
26
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I’m sleeping the day off here. Taking off Dec. 26 is the new taking off Dec. 25 — plus nobody’s at work, all the other blogs aren’t posting today and Whitaker said I could take off. I’ve got some of the usual wrapping up/looking ahead features planned for this week. It all begins tomorrow. In the meantime, Happy Holidays.
Photo by Lelik
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dmac | 9:39 AM | 0 Comments
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