Ubiquitous Marketing

Evangelicals in danger of losing flock? (NYT)
Shafer, with great certitude, tackles Bloomberg (Slate)
Somewhere, some phone company should seize upon this McNabb/Owens spat (Philly Inquirer)

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Lawsuits filed over AOL search data kerfuffle (AP, via Consumerist)
Poynter: the TV show? (E&P)
New Yorker discusses toast, but not my Toast (New Yorker)

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No one can agree on what constitutes facts anymore (E&P)
Jonah Bloom, AdAge EIC, digs Edelman.com (AdAge)
Sponsors love Cool Zidane, despite tarnished finale to career (WSJ, via Post-Gazette)

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One of about seven-hundred calls for HP’s Mark Hurd to come clean (BusinessWeek)
People to complain about Starbucks 5% more (AP, Yahoo)
Wal-Mart’s competitive reason for selling generic drugs (FastCompany.com)

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Fox runs static ad, bypassing consumer’s desire to bypass ad (AP, New York Times) more on this later
HP: woods impossible to navigate (USAToday.com)
UPDATE: WSJ reports that wood path led through communications team (WSJ)
Yahoo, Facebook acquisition? Reportedly in the works (TheStreet.com, citing WSJ)

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Amp’d subscriptions reach 50,000, RPU (revenue per user) double industry average (MediaPost)
Media reports: GM and Ford contemplating alliance (Boston Globe)
US Government uploading anti-drug commercials to YouTube (AP/Newsvine)

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Yahoo! Sports beats the incumbents (ESPN, Sports Illustrated) to break some allegedly bad news for Reggie Bush; where he allegedly appeared received over $100,000 from agents while in college (Yahoo! Sports)
Depending on who you ask, Nintendo’s press Web site password was either leaked (as a PR move or by a reporter or employee) or cracked; [...]

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Facebook delays open launch to address comms (PRWeek)
Meeting with President Bush part of Kazakhstan plan to counter Borat movie inaccuracies (Daily Mail)
HP was #2 in last year’s Business Ethics magazine 100 best corporate citizens report (Business Ethics)

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The controversial British movie depicting a 2007 assassination of President Bush will receive a “wide release” in the US, after being acquired by Newmarket Films, the distributor that previously handled Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ (Reuters, CNN).
Investors say Bristol-Myers Squibb is still under great duress (Reuters, Washington Post)
Apple delivers digital movie downloads, new iPods, [...]

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