The truck will be driving around the city through Saturday.
A D.C. judge ruled today that tobacco companies will have to admit in advertisements that they lied to the public about the inherent dangers of smoking.
Municipal budgets are shrinking, and cities and states across the country and coming up with any number of creative solutions to draw in additional revenue—including corporate ads and sponsorships.
Missy Reilly Smith, who ran in 2010 against Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, is back in the political spotlight. This time, she’s running for vice president.
Much like a fringe Congressional candidate did in D.C. in 2010, the anti-abortion activist Randall Terry is using federal election law to force television stations to run incredibly graphic campaign ads featuring images of aborted fetuses. During the Super Bowl.
A new campaign for statehood devised by Councilmember Michael A. Brown (I-At Large) was officially presented today, and you might soon see it rolling right by you.
Does watching a woman in open-toed shoes step in dog excrement — okay, okay, a mixture of pudding, graham crackers and Cheerios that really looks like dog excrement — and then gagging make you want to buy a D.C. lottery ticket?
There’s an interesting media conundrum brewing in D.C. revolving around a local politician’s advertising — and it’s sure to be one which you’ll be hearing a lot more about very soon. Today, Mike DeBonis reported on Missy Reilly Smith, who is running as a Tea Party-advocating, pro-life challenger against Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton this November. Obviously, trying to unseat Norton in this town is about as close to a political impossibility as you could reach for. So Smith has decided to pull out all the stops: she’s decided to pay for two advertisements which include slideshows of numerous bloody and dismembered aborted fetuses — and all indications are that they will run on D.C.’s televisions. These advertisements are incredibly graphic; click through at your own discretion.
A week ago we pointed out that Pepsi might be too closely exploiting the Obama logo and message for the comfort of their Republican consumers. Well yesterday on the National Mall, they continued to link themselves even more shamelessly to the new president by handing out tote bags with distinctly Obama-esque message (“Hope,” “Yes You Can”) and cards encouraging people to sign an open letter to America’s newest leader by sending a text message…
Photo by jsmjr When I was in Denver for the Democratic National Convention last August, I wondered if the anti-Coca-cola policies of the Pepsi Center wouldn’t lead the then-Obama campaign to alienate a large segment of the population: Coke drinkers. But with Pepsi’s latest ad campaign popping up all over Washington, in Metro stations, the sides of Metro buses, and even outside Union Station in advance of Obama’s inauguration on Tuesday, the tables have…
