In an interesting editorial this morning, FOXNews poster boy, Bill O’Reilly conflates the OJ Simpson confession, abortion and The New York Times. Far be it from us to question the mind that would make those connections…the point is: O’Reilly wants you to boycott FOX’s advertisers. All of them. For life.
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Domino’s “Brooklyn Style” Pizza vs. The New York Times
By 11.10.06
The New York Times has a left-wing anti-Domino’s Pizza analysis up today. Far be it from the Consumerist to tell you what sort of pizza to eat, we have to admit the Domino’s “Brooklyn-style” pizza fills us with ire. And we don’t even really give a shit about Brooklyn pizza.
Google Goes to Print
By 11.6.06
If you’ve been fretting over your favorite newspaper’s inevitible demise (thanks, Internet!)… never fear! Google is set to begin offering print ads in 50 newspapers as a test to see how far it can extend itself into offline media.
National Disaster Goes Better With Coke
By 9.11.06
Dealing with 9/11 is a matter of reframing it within a certain contextual advertising.
NYT Notes AOL Manual Upload, Questions Raised
By 7.22.06
After we uploaded an AOL retention manual, AOL says “No Comment” to its authenticity in an article in today’s New York Times “What’s Online” section:
The News; Wal-Mart Hires Flying Nun
By 7.18.06
• Mr. Hooters is dead at 69, huh huh. [NYT] “Robert H. Brooks, 69, Owner of Hooters Restaurant Chain, Is Dead”
All The News That’s Fit To Self-Immolate
By 7.10.06
• It’s like that children’s game, would you rather have your hip disintegrate, or your jaw? [CT] “Lawyers gear up to attack Fosamax”
If The Times Is Treason, We’re Heresy
By 6.27.06
The New York Times might be a left-wing propaganda machine hell-bent on sowing villainy and communism amongst the American populace, but treasonous? Well, that’s what the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says, and he wants to see The Old Gray Lady hang for its crimes against The State.
The Intentional Comedy, Uncanny Editorial, of NYT Photography
By 5.5.06
As part of the growing awareness of The Consumerist that there are these things called cars and people put pricey gas in them, we were pleased as a plum in a pie to spy this choice pic in the New York Times this morning.
Photograph of Airbus Human Steerage
By 5.3.06
You might remember Airbus passionately denying that they intend on introducing standing room only human steerage cattle cars into their airplanes.
Morning News Roundup
By 4.4.06
7-Eleven is set to implement a new, testosterone-boosted ATM this year, providing even more banking solutions to the great unwashed The all-embracing milk of corporate hegemony continues to…
Utility Taxes Go to Company Pockets and not Feds
By 3.15.06
On the bottom of the electrical bill they’re there like uninvited guests finishing all the spirits: State taxes. Local taxes. Federal taxes. Incontinental Transfer taxes. Candle taxes. Watching too much Taxi reruns taxes. But a new report by the New York Times reveals that in many cases those taxes earmarked for corporate income tax are staying in the companies treasury, to the tune of billions and billions of dollars.
Ambien Users Report Primitive Unconscious Night Gourgings
By 3.14.06
As if America weren’t globular enough already, now you can get fat off sleeping pills.
Consumerist Buys its Way Into the New York Times
By 2.27.06
Bust out the absinthe, we got in the New York Times this weekend.
Snag Sweet Tech Deals
By 2.13.06
Scoring consumer tech bargains has gotten harder but are still there for the savy, reports The New York Times.
