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"Where's the beef?" and Apple's "1984" commercial are just two commercials that I discuss on the Everything 80s podcast open.spotify.com/episode/6A3rq3…
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Cynthia B. Meyers
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Cynthia B. Meyers
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Media & advertising historian, #brandedcontent past & present; author of A Word from Our Sponsor and forthcoming Sell-e-vision: How the Ad Industry Shaped TV
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NPR dropped the words "national" and "public" from their name long ago now--is no surprise that like other cultural institutions it is receiving support from wealthy donors nytimes.com/2026/04/16/bus…
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“Here in the arctic cold of the stratosphere a chronicle of victory is sky-written by white vapor trails and by the searing flame of an enemy plane in its last earthbound plunge.” (1944) wordfromoursponsor.tumblr.com/post/809019385…
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"Give them Campbell's Vegetable Soup. Into this fine soup go fifteen different vegetables. Serve brimming bowls of it … and there in itself is your main dish for a nourishing wartime meal. In fact, many women call Campbell's Vegetable Soup 'almost a meal in itself.'" (1943)
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@MichaelSocolow @The_OAH I still have a drawer or two full of those xeroxes (and I still use them sometimes)
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@MichaelSocolow @The_OAH Some archives did not allow pens, only pencils, notetaking only on yellow paper (I then transferred those notes to index cards); 25-50 cents to copy one page (I chose those carefully!). Do not miss those days.
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I'm headed to the Organization of American Historians Conference (@The_OAH )in Philadelphia this week, which prompted some thoughts on just how different being a historian is in 2026 than it was in the 1990s (when I earned my Ph.D.).
Latest in the Lint Trap.
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This is a lesson that I think a lot of people who graduate with fancy degrees and work in the knowledge industry need to internalize. You have no right to do a fun job. If you get a fun job that pays well, you hit the jackpot. Most people hate their jobs.
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@MichaelSocolow LLMs can’t think—maybe that means they can’t execute a new task?
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I just used my university's subscription version of Google Gemini (which we are encouraged to use) for a very simple task:
Go through a dissertation and let me know if all in-text citations appear in the references list.
We went around several times.
Worse than useless.
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The competition (YouTube, Tiktok, etc) is expanding as Hollywood is shrinking--but Hollywoodites demand no shrinkage--hoping to reverse the tide I suppose nytimes.com/2026/04/13/bus…
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I’ve been saying this for awhile but I think YouTube, unlike legacy TV, is working hard to reinvent advertising and has the wherewithal to possibly accomplish it
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British broadcasters refused to air much popular music so pirate radio broadcasters supplied the rocknroll music audiences demanded--government-controlled media doesn't always serve audience interests
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DJs from Radio Caroline in 1966, and the ship Radio Caroline🏴☠️ In 1964, Radio Caroline began broadcasting from a ship off the Essex coast. It was probably the best-known free radio in the UK. The British authorities were unable to reach them, as they stuck to off-coast locations.
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Portrait of American dancer Isadora Duncan. Photographed by Arnold Genthe, 1926.
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2/20/45: RCA and NBC invite you to "Hold a 'Television Party' in Your Home Tonight'' in New York Daily News ad. There were as many as 1,500 TV sets in range of WNBT, but a great many were inoperable because parts and service were unavailable to civilians due to World War II.
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NEWLY RESTORED at the @internetarchive: In this 1973 insurance company #filmstrip, we see a suitcase projector that agents once used to show filmstrips to clients.
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This was the result of the FCC deciding that cigarette commercials (but no other product) were subject to the Fairness Doctrine because there was a controversy over health effects—broadcasters would be required to air PSAs about harm for every tobacco ad
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🚭 April 1, 1970: President Richard Nixon signed into law banning cigarette commercials on radio and television. That ban officially went into effect on January 2, 1971. instagr.am/p/DWm8XDMguKm/
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