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Colbert Uses MediaPost Item To Tease Campbell's Soup

When Stephen Colbert mentions your brand on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," are you happy or sad? Probably a little of both, since his conservative-dummy persona always manages to skewer whatever he discusses. So Campbell's marketing folks may have had mixed feelings about being featured for their new "youth-skewing" pouch-packaged soups.  But since Colbert also got his info from a MediaPost story -- shown prominently on-air along with the MediaPost logo (and byline by our own Karl Greenberg) -- our reaction was undiluted brand pride.

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