2 posts and columns on Gloria Steinem

Is the New Droid Ad Anti-Women and Anti-Gay or Just Plain Idiotic? Actually, All Three!

in News on December 5, 2009 at 12:24 am PT

What in the world can one make of the new ad for the Droid, the Motorola phone with the Google Android software on the Verizon Wireless network, which apparently put out this commercial? Here’s what: It aggressively calls the Apple iPhone a dumb blonde and then a prissy dude in need of a beatdown. Let’s put it this way: It makes Glenn Beck look like Gloria Steinem and Adam Lambert combined! It is true that sometimes a cellphone ad is just a cellphone ad–but, in this case, sometimes it’s just appalling.
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The Sheryl Sandberg PR Tour Rolls Into Town!

in News on April 15, 2008 at 5:55 am PT

Mark Zuckerberg? Who’s that? Now, at Facebook, it’s apparently the Season of Sandberg! Ah, the appeal of a fresh face is just irresistible to the press–OK, including BoomTown, except we posted more than a month ago!–with two major pieces, in Fortune and The Wall Street Journal, rolling out this week alone, with everything you wanted [...]