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Before becoming confirmed as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice said, “I want them out,” to skin magazines like Playboy and Penthouse sold at two State Department newsstands - though placed under brown paper covers - writes U.S. News.
Once confirmed, Rice began the eviction of the magazines. “The secretary wanted them gone immediately,” said senior adviser Jim Wilkinson. “She didn’t understand how a department that claimed to fight for the rights of women worldwide could sell pornography that degrades women.” He added that the magazines “could be seen as contributing to a hostile work environment.”
Together with the State’s internal manager and several State women, Wilkinson got the racy magazines removed. Now, some of those women have their eye on other male publications like Maxim and FHM.
State News’s Richard Williams won’t listen. A ban on XXX magazines is one thing, “but Maxim,” he said, “is a bestseller.”
Though off-air online and experiential advertising grew modestly as a part of the overall radio revenue pie, and election-related political ads increased in Q3, total radio ad revenues were down 9% to $4.97 billion for Q3 and down 10% for…
Glamour magazine is running its photo of Britney Spears not only on the cover of the U.S. edition, but on the covers in seven other countries, as well.
Britney will grace Russia, Sweden and Greece’s editions of Glamour, among others.…
Titan Worldwide has signed a five-year deal with the Delaware River Port Authority to manage out-of-home advertising for the Port Authority Transit corp.
The contract covers advertising on PATCO’s rail service and stations between Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, writes Mediaweek.…
Publicis has acquired full-service agency W&K Communications, continuing its Asia expansion that began several years ago.
W&K will be pulled under the umbrella of Publicis’s Burnett agency network, and will be renamed Leo Burnett Beijing Advertising, writes Adweek.
Other recent Publicis…
With only four weeks separating Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, Cyber Monday One (December 1) and Cyber Monday Two (December 
may command a greater share of online sales than they have in years past - thus increasing the importance…
Top American non-luxury auto brands received higher ratings and less negative comments from online consumers than competing Japanese brands, according to an analysis of consumer opinions collected from automotive review websites by Biz360, MarketingCharts reports.
The research, which aggregated a year’s…
