As the hardreading staff has repeatedly noted, the Boston Globe has gotten awfully cozy with its advertisers of late.
Exhibit Umpteen: Yesterday’s combo platter for Legal Sea Foods in the $tately local broadsheet.
The entrée was this full-page ad on page A5:
Just desserts turned up in the Globe Business section’s Bold Types column.
Roger Berkowitz: All politics is Legal
We’ve got plenty of choices this Super Tuesday: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Roger
Berkowitz.
Roger Berkowitz?
That’s right. The Boston restaurateur known for his wacky advertisements is at it again. A new round of Legal Sea Foods ads will appear on Tuesday on local news stations and in the Globe, promoting “Berkowitz for President.”
Boston Globe accent – predictably – on “promoting.”
[…] Umpteen: The latest Legal Sea Foods ad campaign, which enjoyed some Boston Globe $ynergy on Tuesday, and featured this full-page ad in the $tately local broadsheet on […]