AAN News
Donated Ad Sold to Non-Profit
AAN Staff |
10-01-2003 4:36 pm |
Association News
End of the Roadnew
After World War I, there were only 3,000
miles of paved roads in the United States.
Then came Route 66 -- dubbed
the "Mother Road" by the dustbowl Okies
heading to California in John Steinbeck's
The Grapes of Wrath -- which linked
Chicago to Los Angeles and ran through
eight states. In Illinois
Times' annual Route 66 issue,
Paul Ingle looks at the Dixie Truckers
Home, which opened 75 years ago in
McLean, Illinois, just north of the state
capital, Springfield. The Dixie's story
mirrors the history of the Mother Road
and the golden age of the small-time
entrepreneur. But on July 31, the Dixie
passed into corporate hands, and the
pioneering ideas of the oldest truck stop
on Route 66 will be absorbed into a
franchising plan that will stamp the name
cookie-cutter fashion on
a variety of businesses on the
laser-straight Interstate 55, and the true
Dixie will then take its place in history
alongside the fabled Route 66.
FDA Reviews Pharm Advertisingnew
An ad for the prescription drug Zoloft asks: "Feeling sad? Anxious? Tired?" Zoloft is sold by Pfizer as a treatment for depression and other disorders. It is but one of many print and broadcast advertisements that pitch prescription drugs directly to consumers - a category of ads scrutinized last week at a hearing held by the Food and Drug Administration.
New York Times |
09-30-2003 10:39 am |
Industry News
Roger "Hank" Thornhill Terminated in Stranger's Get Out the Vote Initiative
09-30-2003 8:38 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: The Stranger
Board Approves Plans for AAN East
AAN Staff |
09-30-2003 6:40 pm |
Association News
Left Behindnew
While the rest of America frets over an
unemployment rate of 6 percent, unemployment on
the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South
Dakota, home to the Oglala Sioux Tribe of
the Lakota Nation, is estimated to be between 60
percent and 80 percent. A century and a half of
mistreatment and neglect by the federal government
has left Pine Ridge and other Lakota reservations
with staggering rates of poverty, homelessness,
alcoholism, diabetes, teenage pregnancy, murder,
suicide and infant mortality. Some Lakota tell Terje
Langeland that their tribes need to wean themselves
off government assistance, through
education and the formation of small businesses.
"We're more or less sitting here expecting handouts,"
says Homer Whirlwind Soldier, an elder from the
Rosebud Sioux Reservation. "We need to teach
our kids to be self-sufficient."
Regular Column in The Stranger Being Made Into Movienew
Zimbabwe-born Charles Mudede has been
writing the unique "Police Beat" for five years.
According to The Seattle Times, Mudede "visits
police stations once a week, checks the log, and,
after talking with the officers involved, incorporates
whatever he finds most interesting into his column."
Director Robinson Devor says his love for
Seattle and Mudede's "fantastic" journalism
convinced him to make the low-budget
independent film: 'Police Beat' particularly
caught my eye because it has a poetic tone
to crime that other crime logs in other papers do
not."
The Seattle Times |
09-29-2003 12:58 am |
Industry News
Metro Silicon Valley Launches PDF Download Edition
09-29-2003 4:43 pm |
Press Releases
FBI Bypasses First Amendment to Nail a Hackernew
The Register |
09-29-2003 3:47 pm |
Legal News
SRDS, ABC Link Circ, Readership Datanew
SRDS (Standard Rate and Data Service)
members can now access newspaper circulation
and readership data directly from SRDS' online
newspaper rate listings, a change aimed at
facilitating media planning.
Editor & Publisher |
09-26-2003 3:36 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation
Madison Avenue Calls for Media Outlets to Guarantee Responsenew
A new ad industry model for validating the effects
of advertising is placing the onus on media to be
responsible not just for delivering a message to
consumers, but also to ensure consumers are
attentive, are persuaded and actually respond to
the ads they receive. The shift, part of a
fundamental rethinking about the roles of
advertising and media, has huge implications for
how agencies plan and buy media and,
ultimately, for how media companies sell their
inventory.
MediaPost's Media Daily News |
09-26-2003 10:16 am |
Industry News
Auto, Telco, and Financial Spending More Onlinenew
Companies that have historically spent significant
amounts on advertising, such as car
manufacturers and telecommunications outfits,
are stepping up their commitment to the Internet,
according to a report released by Nielsen//
NetRatings.
Editor & Publisher |
09-26-2003 10:09 am |
Industry News
States: Ruling Won't Stop Their No-Call Lawsnew
State officials in Mississippi, Tennessee, and
Missouri noted that the Oklahoma ruling involved
a legal challenge by telemarketing groups to the
Editor & Publisher |
09-26-2003 10:07 am |
Legal News
The Orkin Scamnew
With 1.6 million customers, 400 branch
offices and 7,500 employees nationwide, Orkin is
the
most recognized name in the pest-control
industry. But an Orlando Weekly investigation
of Orkin's business practices reveals forged
documents, faked pest-control treatments
and shoddy workmanship and "portrays a
company
focused on maximizing profits, even
when
that means cutting corners," writes Jeffrey
C. Billman.
Viacom Cuts Forecast; Local Ad Dollars Slow to Reboundnew
Viacom Inc. told investors Wednesday that its
revenue and profit for the full year would come in
below earlier forecasts because the market for
local advertising has not recovered as strongly as
the company had expected
New York Times |
09-25-2003 9:15 am |
Industry News
