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John Oliver On The Future Of Newspapers [VIDEO]

The Week recaps: “The media is a food chain that would fall apart without local newspapers,” Oliver said, noting the pricing structure of online versus print ads and detailing the decline of great papers like The Oregonian, and the increased workload on the remaining reporters. “If journalists are constantly required to write, edit, shoot videos, and tweet, mistakes are going …

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New Hillary Ad Hits Trump On Ties To Putin [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Sunday released a video questioning Republican counterpart Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. “We don’t know why Trump praises Putin,” a narrator says at the beginning of the video, which shows a clip of Trump calling the Russian president a “strong leader” and pushing back against criticism of Putin. A clip then …

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New Hillary Ad: GOP Agrees, Trump Is Unfit [VIDEO]

Recap: Hillary Clinton’s campaign is using Republican criticisms of Donald Trump to paint him as unfit to be commander in chief. In a 30-second ad titled “Unfit,” Republican officials and columnists express concerns about Trump having access to the nuclear codes. “If he governs consistent with some of the things he’s said as a candidate, I would be very frightened,” …

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Oliver Stone Promotes Snowden With PSA Urging Patrons To Turn Off Phones In Movie Theaters [VIDEO]

Deadline recaps: Oliver Stone wants you to turn off your smartphone while you’re in a theater watching a movie — which he surely thinks should probably be his upcoming Snowden, but that’s beside the point. Or is it? The Oscar-winning filmmaker taped a new PSA which, by the way, debuted in front of a screening of Snowden held during Comic-Con …

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New Jill Stein Ad Backs Black Lives Matter [VIDEO]

In her second national campaign ad in as many days, Green Party nominee Jill Stein and backer Cornel West speak while an on-screen tagline reads “There is a candidate who supports #BlackLivesMatter.” Watch below. Stein is currently polling at about 5%. In 2000 Green Party nominee Ralph Nader finished with 3% of the national vote, a margin that many blamed …

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Billboard Of The Day

Via press release: Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, revealed a new billboard off I-85 calling out disgraced, notoriously anti-LGBTQ Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore. The billboard, which reads “#NoMoore: Dismiss Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore” goes up as Moore, suspended from the …

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New Jill Stein Ad Pitches To Bernie Backers: Don’t Choose The Lesser Evil Of Hillary Clinton [VIDEO]

Here’s a recap: “I would feel terrible if Donald Trump gets elected, and terrible if Hillary Clinton gets elected.” Dr. Jill Stein’s new ad equates both Trump and Clinton as being the wrong choice for president. Stein explains that with either of these candidates, America will be in a perpetual state of war, the “social safety net” will be destroyed …

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VIRAL VIDEO: This Is An Ad For Something

The marketing site Creativity recaps: Ikea’s latest ad imagines what life would have been like if people in the 17th century had felt the need to record their plate of food and get some “likes” before they actually ate it. In other words, before Instagram. The ad, the aim of which is to encourage people to rediscover the simple joy …

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Trump Attacks Wasserman Schultz In New Ad [VIDEO]

This was to be expected: The video, which was released on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, features a mock job application for the Florida congresswoman to work for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Clinton’s campaign logo appears in the corner of the mock up. It ticks through her list of experience, which includes: …

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This Is An Ad For Something [VIDEO]

Icelandic Water today launched a print and video campaign which gently teases the United States over the possibility of having our first women president. After all, the announcer notes, Iceland elected its first woman president nearly four decades ago. “What is this, 1980?” The print campaign also wryly observes an uptick in Americans who are considering moving overseas. See it …

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New Hillary Ad: Back When Donald Loved Me [VIDEO]

Mediaite recaps: The political media world is abuzz about Texas Senator and former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz‘s failure to endorse nominee Donald Trump during his speech at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night, but presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton‘s campaign is spending Thursday morning reminding people about someone who did endorse the nominee. Unfortunately for Donald Trump, the nominee …

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New Hillary Ad: When Trump Speaks, Kids Are Listening

From the Washington Post: Hillary Clinton released her campaign’s newest attack ad against Donald Trump, a brutal, minute-long reprisal of some of his most controversial statements as seen through the eyes of children. The sharply negative spot comes a day before Trump is expected to announce his vice-presidential running mate and several days before the Republican Party’s convention. In it, …

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This Is An Ad For Something [VIDEO]

Ad Age recaps: Think about “The Best a Man Can Get” and you don’t envision a guy hugging the porcelain goddess. But while ads featuring Olympic athletes usually show the glory, Gillette’s anthem video for the Summer Olympics breaking today instead focuses on the gritty, including what appears to be the first razor advertising that shows a guy throwing up. …

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Transgender Rights Ad To Air On Fox News During Donald Trump’s Speech At GOP Convention [VIDEO]

The New York Times reports: On the evening that Donald J. Trump is expected to accept the Republican nomination, a coalition of gay rights groups will run a commercial that criticizes laws recently passed in states like North Carolina that limit which public restrooms transgender people can use. The minute-long ad, which will air on Fox News during Mr. Trump’s …

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BRAZIL: Rio Olympics Get Official Bug Spray Sponsor

Advertising Age reports: Here’s an Olympics sponsorship with major topical relevance: SC Johnson’s Off! has been named the official mosquito repellent of next month’s Summer Olympics games in Rio de Janeiro. SCJ said in a statement that it will distribute thousands of bottles of repellent to athletes, staff and volunteers at the games, which begin Aug. 5, amid an outbreak …

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75 Years Ago Today: The World’s First TV Ad [VIDEO]

From Ad Age: “Evidence is mounting that [TV] will gain little headway for ‘the duration,'” Ad Age wrote in June 1941 following the FCC’s approval of commercial TV. The next month, on July 1, Bulova aired what’s considered the first TV commercial. The grainy, shaky, 10-second spot ran during an afternoon Dodgers-Phillies game on NBC-owned WNBT. There’s a simple outline …

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Skittles Gave Up Their Rainbow For Pride [VIDEO]

The global food giant Mars pulled off an amusing promotion for London Pride over the weekend, temporarily “giving up” the famed Skittles rainbow for all-white packaging, which they coupled with an all-white float. “This Pride, only one rainbow deserves to be the centre of attention — yours. And we’re not going to be the ones to steal your rainbow thunder, …

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NRA To Spend $2M On New Anti-Hillary Ad [VIDEO]

B-B-B-B-Benghaziiiiiiii! Via Raw Story: The National Rifle Association’s political action committee is set to air $2 million worth of advertising to promote a survivor of the Benghazi attacks in 2012 in efforts to hurt Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The Republican House committee on Benghazi released its eighth report Tuesday providing no new information and the Chairman still couldn’t prove …

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Atheist Group To Post Message To GOP Convention

Via press release: The Freedom From Religion Foundation and its Cleveland chapter are mounting an impressive 14-by-48-foot message to the Republican National Convention: Keep church and state separate. That message on a highway billboard comes from an unexpected source: President Ronald Reagan. “We establish no religion in this country . . . Church and state are, and must remain, separate,” …

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New Pro-Hillary Ad: Trump Is Full Of Hate [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: A super-PAC allied with Hillary Clinton is making the case to young voters that Donald Trump is “full of hate.” Priorities USA on Thursday unveiled the new campaign, with two videos and a website called “We Can Stop Hate.” The website’s homepage currently shows a video titled “Donald Trump is full of hate” — a supercut of …

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