Tag: new york times
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Amy Chozick’s New York Times Story On General Motors & Scratch
Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times Ross Martin, left, of Viacom’s creative strategy unit, is working with General Motors to help revive interest in cars among young consumers. Mr. Martin and John McFarland of Chevrolet are shown in G.M.’s headquarters in Detroit. As Young Lose Interest in Cars, G.M. Turns to MTV for Help…
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Speaking At MasterCard Tomorrow
Great piece New York Times piece on Ajay Banga, new CEO of MasterCard. I love the way he thinks. Looking forward to meeting Ajay and speaking about innovation at MasterCard on Monday, talking about how MTV Scratch is helping to pioneer new ground for MTV.
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The New York Times Interviews A Robot
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Help Use Facebook To Convince This 15 Year-Old’s Parents To “Unground” Her
Tess, a 15 year-old from Queens, just got grounded for 5 weeks by her parents. Totally not fair! So she started a Facebook group to petition her parents to “unground” her. The goal was to get to 1000 supporters. She blew past 1000 today. New York Times just broke the story. Support Tess.
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Sergey Brin’s Donation Might Help Us Find Bolislav
Did you read the NY Times story about Sergey Brin’s $1MM donation to the organization that saved him and other Jews from death at the hands of Russian anti-semites? Maybe the money I sent to Bolislav Vainman, my “Russian Twin,” in 1986, did find its way to him, after all. Maybe my mom was wrong,…
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Antonio Campos’ “Afterschool” Is The Best Movie You Probably Won’t See This Year
Unless you trust me. Is this movie going to make you laugh? Probably not even once. Is it going to make you go out and buy the soundtrack? Nope, there is no music in the movie. So why am I recommending AFTERSCHOOL so strongly? Because in the midst of all the complete fucking shit in…
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Most Awkward Interview on Live TV Ever (tonight)
UPDATE: I can’t believe the fockers at MSNBC took this video down. I could spend time tracking down another copy because I’m sure it’s back on the web somewhere, but I’m on a short conf call that’s actually got my attention and it’s going to end soon, so no time to go looking. Moving on……
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We’re Finally Talking About “Bing” Today
Just read the feature about us by Stuart Elliott in the New York Times today, announcing our branded ent (what are we supposed to call it, again?) deal with Microsoft. Msft’s tapping MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, CMT and Nick at Nite to help Yusuf & co. launch BING, their new search decision engine. I’m proud…