JOHN CAPONE
Writer, MediaPost

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  • Media Client of the Year: Barack Obama
    A political campaign is a long, hard slog. For the media tea ...
  • Good News for Newspapers (Who Like Bad News)
    James Smith, chief revenue officer at the Huffington Post, has reason ...
  • Cause And EFX
    The soundtrack should maybe have been Das EFX but it was ...
  • The Geena Davis Factor Or, Is the Secretly Liberal Media Secretly Sexist?
    If I started this with a joke about Barack Obama and watermelo ...
  • Against Green
    Walk into any Whole Foods. The codified ecocorrect corporate mandate as exemplifi ...
  • The Whole Truthiness
    Who knows who Stephen Colbert really is? Who really cares? Certainly n ...
  • Sounding Off Joe Levy
    Joe Levy, a veteran music writer and the newly-appointed editor-in-chief of Blender
  • Hot Buttons
    It's been a year in which some of the things we don ...
  • Out of the Park
    It's the 100th anniversary of the song "Take Me Out to t ...
  • Full Bleed
    Publishing can be a bloody business. A passage in the recently releas ...
  • Cursing Up a Storm
    Mark Twain once quipped, "When angry, count to four; when very angr ...
  • I Got Rhythm
    "Protect yourself," I read, "use the rhythm method." But I'm not ev ...
  • Pushing Up Daisies
    For better or for worse, Tony Schwartz had a hand in creati ...
  • Stuffing the Ballot Box
    Even for the OOH marketing world, Adpack USA is a bit nich ...
  • Depends on What You Mean by 'User'
    How many industry execs does it take to make a bland one-minu ...
  • The Spy Who Slagged Me
    The former Agency Spy has tendered her resignation to Her Majesty's Secr ...
  • Close Call
    Don't let the steely robotic gaze and fake Stepford smile fool yo ...
  • Publishing to Paupers
    In these tough economic times, it seems that any and every ne ...
  • Why Aren't They Wearing Any Pants?
    The short answer is, we don't really know and won't hazard ...
  • To Hell and FAQ
    Whether you're a jihadist or just a flack trying to quell t ...
  • RIP Radar
    Radar is dead and buried. But it died with its sunglasses ...
  • Have They Lost the Ability To Tell the Difference Between a Good Idea and a Bad Idea?
    America: Founded on mountains of meat, rivers of milk and going ...
  • Dawn of the Dead
    The undertaker has had a busy month. After being bludgeoned by Scientologist ...
  • A Little Rain Never Hurt No One
    You can lead a mag to water, but you can't make ...
  • Giving Head
    Radiohead has never made cheery videos. The band, fiercely protective of i ...
  • Sadly, They Don't See the Irony
    "Just read your article on Green Fashion That's Chic and thought y ...
  • No White Flag
    H.L. Mencken famously said, "Every normal man must be tempted, at time ...
  • Little Boxes
    Perhaps all iPod spots - even before Feist got in everyone's hea ...
  • I Just Love Your Flashy Ways
    This had to be the best pitch we got all month: ...
  • Stoned Slackers Get the Message
    The hordes of squatters are a perennial free Wi-Fi dilemma in coffeehouse ...