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Showing posts with label The Wall Street Journal Digital Network. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Wall Street Journal Digital Network. Show all posts
Wall Street Journal Digital Network video: The Best Photos of the London Olympics. WSJ photo director Jack Van Antwerp speaks with George Stahl, Deputy Managing Editor of DJ Newswires about how the advancements in digital technology have allowed a scale of detail and context to converge at the London 2012 Olympics, of what used to be generic sports wire photos, that are nothing short of astounding. Van Antwerp showcases a photo of swimmer Michael Phelps shot by Gabriel Bouys of AFP/Getty Images as an example of this revolution, all the more remarkable because flash photography is prohibited at the swimming venue. Uploaded August 10, 2012. http://youtu.be/K-V_mgS0ohE The URL mentioned above is http://online.wsj.com/public/page/olympics-london.html See also: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443404004577581244173272220.html?mod=WSJ_OL2012_hps_PhotosModule_1#slide/1
Getty Images video: Shaun Botterill, Adrian Murrell, Marc Webbon and Georges De Keerle of Getty Images speak to the practical effects and marketing edge that clients of Getty Images' will have from their use of the latest technology at London 2012, including 3D, 360 and robotic cameras. Uploaded June 6, 2012.http://youtu.be/Okt0gVYs_zk
WSJDigitalNetwork video: Stripe Your Lawn Like the Major Leagues. WSJ Digital correspondent Wendy Bounds goes to Boston's Fenway Park to speak with ballpark field manager David Mellor to get some inside advice about about how they make some of those amazing "striping" patterns in the grass and how you can learn the tricks of the trade. April 27, 2012.http://youtu.be/xXQDP5IqowQ
I was planning on running a lot of my photos from Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, where for most of the time between 1992-2003, I had a mini-season ticket plan and probably attended over 20 ballgames a year, despite living in Arlington County.
Unfortunately, for my purposes today, most of the photos are of my friends and the ballpark itself, and the ones showing the grass parts of the field weren't at the right angle so that you could see the patterns in the outfield, hence my use of these photos from photobucket.
Scott's Lawn Care, who is the official Lawn Care company of MLB, and which actually sells the same grass seed mix as used at five MLB ballparks -Cardinals, Cubs, Phillies, Red Sox and Reds- has a number of clever examples of various designs that you can check out on their website and consider for your own lawn http://www.scotts.com/smg/search/gSrchResults.jsp?newsearch=baseball
Here's the link to their Scotts Lawn Care's MLB Snap Perks National Launch Sweepstakes on Facebook, which includes trips to the 2012 All-Star Game in Kansas City and the 2012 World Series: https://www.facebook.com/scottslawn?sk=app_329168310455200
Wall Street Journal Digital Network video: NFL and Nike Unveil New Team Jerseys at Brooklyn Navy Yard. April 3, 2012.
Three weeks before 2012 NFL Draft, NFL & Nike host marketing bonanza for release of Nike's Elite 51 line of football uniforms, sportswear & training apparel.
Above, MarketWatch correspondent Andria Cheng reports from the NFL marketing bonanza that fans have been buzzing about for months as the NFL's contract shifts from Reebok to Nike.
She speaks to Brian Orakpo of the Redskins and Alex Smith of the 49ers about the new line of official uniforms, shoes and gloves, and speaks to Nike Brand president Charlie Denson about the new line of NFL-themed consumer sportswear and training line of apparel.
Costs for near-replica of lighter, non-water-absorbent Elite 51 line of NFL game jerseys are approximately $250, with the intermediate line of fitted shirts, with centered team logo, going for about $100 a piece, $15 more than the current price point of Reebok's.
Denson expects most of the merchandise to be on retail store shelves by NFL Draft of April 26th. Projected wholesale sales of $750 million? We'll see.
USNikeFootball video: How we work: Nike + the Seattle Seahawks. April 3, 2012
Nike Football Design Director Todd Van Horne and Seattle Seahawks Equipment Manager Eric Kennedy discuss the collaboration between Nike and Seahawk players and staff to get the most innovative products on the players. Seahawk strong safety Kam Chancellor wants the lightest uniform possible given how he's expected to keep up with the opponent's fastest players on the field.
Wall Street Journal: Disney's ABC, Univision May Launch News-Channel. February 7, 2012. http://youtu.be/pfOnlXlV8lA
Coming this Fall: A 24/7 News Channel from Univision & ABC News -in English! Marriage of news & advertising convenience, necessity or desperation? And will it be hard news or soft?; Brazil abstains
Naturally, as has been described here on the blog many times previously, given the rapturous and over-the-top way the Miami Heraldhas traditionally chosen to greet almost any quasi-news story that involved either Spanish-language marketing, advertising or television, always emphasizing the froth with lots of positive quotes from the people who stand to profit the most, in what is, essentially, a consumer transaction that involves selling soap to someone, possibly with a tilde, but never really looking hard at whether or not what is being offered is actually quality or not, I can hardly wait for the coming Herald article on this new way of trying to sell more advertising.
I hereby predict that the Herald reporter, whomever it is, will say that that this move may well be "Revolutionary." Or genius. Or overdue. Or a guaranteed hit even before it hits the air.
We all know how the Herald gets when they have a brand-new shiny toy to talk about that has something to do with Latin America and marketing, witness their recent spate of pro-Brazil articles and editorials the past year.
Who can count the number of pieces they've done on the theme of visiting Brazilians make-the-world-go-around in Miami, which, given where we are and the current sad state of serious news coverage in local Miami TV stations, quite naturally copied the theme like nobody's business.
But when President Obama was leaving for Brazil last year, despite all the news coverage nationally in print and on TV about what the U.S. and the West wanted to do at the U.N. with regard to sanctions or counter-moves to the killings and repression in Syria, the Miami HeraldNEVER wrote a single thing in the newspaper or online about Brazil abstainingfrom voting on the matter, did they? Nope, and I was looking, too.
I checked not only the online archives but scrupulously checked the newspaper -everyday. Before, during and after his trip.
The Herald said nothing even while writing about how important Brazil was asserting itself... blah, blah. But when push came to shove, Brazil ducked. That's many things, but what it's NOT is leadership. Or positive.
For a country like Brazil that's forever talking so much about wanting to be taken seriously on the international scene, it hardly gets more transparent about what you really want to do than abstaining from an important vote at the U.N, does it? Of perhaps having to vote against China and Russia. So they did nothing.
Today's New York Times tells the tale of what that indifference has wrought months later:
In Turkey, once a strong supporter of Mr. Assad and now one of his most vocal critics, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Parliament that the veto of the United Nations resolution on Syria by Russia and China had given Mr. Assad a “license to kill,”
The only thing missing in this and so many other news articles the past about all the people who have been maimed or killed is a note that reads "Thanks Brazil" from President Assad.
So why the South Florida news media refusal to report the facts about the Brazil abstentions on Libya and Syria, and their logical consequences? Good question.
But not for me, for the Herald and the rest of the South Florida news media that far too often seems content to lets its own advertising bottom line dictate what actually gets covered or mentioned on-air on in print.
No, unfortunately, as I've said here before many times, the South Florida news media, and the Herald in particular, simply can't say enough good things about Latin America, whether its countries, its consumers or its markets, when there's money to be made, but rather curiously, they and their reporters only seem to seek out people for the article who will say good things. Or who will directly or indirectly profit from it.
Where's the objective balance to the stories? Where's the follow-up and perspective?
No, THAT won't come until months later. Then, they may run an AP story that they post online, but which you never see in the newspaper itself.
No doubt we'll see that over-the-top story in the Herald soon, and I can already guess whom they will interview from their small list of Usual Suspects to say how great this is for everyone. No, not really, mostly just some of the advertising folks who want to sell air time for Barack Obama political commercials. -----
