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George Tannenbaum on the future of advertising, the decline of the English Language and other frivolities. 100% jargon free. A Business Insider "Most Influential" blog.

Friday, September 23, 2016

Cliches, buzzwords and Hal Jackson.

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About 75 times a minute at work, I pull a modified Hannah Arendt and rail about the banality of evil (use of language.) Mostly, I deliver ...

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Not content with content.

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Over the last 15 years ago, really since the rise of the internet, a myth has formed that essentially propagates the idea that amateurs are ...

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

The Availability Heuristic.

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We in advertising, we in the modern world, suffer from something scholars call "the availability heuristic." Actually, to be blunt...

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

1956. New York. The year in bombs.

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1956 began as 1955 ended. On the evening of January 4th, until 1:50 AM on the morning of January 5th, "Forty-one policemen, detectiv...

Monday, September 19, 2016

Some bombings in 1955.

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The bombings continued in 1955 in some new locations and some previously attacked sites. The year in bombing began when on Wednesday, Ja...

Bombings. And New York.

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Dateline, New York City, October 22, 1951. BOMBS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY IS BROUGHT TO JUSTICE FOR THEIR DASTA...

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