Boston Mystery Devices a Cartoon Marketing Ploy
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By KEN MAGUIRE BOSTON - Ten blinking electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon. At least one of the devices depicts a character giving the finger.
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Wary Bostonians went about their  business on Thursday as a murky threat of a "dirty bomb" attack  hung over the city and the FBI, while playing down the threat,  hunted for four Chinese nationals possibly linked to the plot.
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This unfocused spectacle, more parade than narrative, achieves the dubious miracle of translating an animated cartoon into something that feels like less than two dimensions.
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An ill-advised PR stunt for Aqua Teen Hunger Force causes chaos in Beantown when authorities scramble to defuse what appears to be a coordinated terror attack. In Table of Malcontents.
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By KEN MAGUIRE BOSTON - Several illuminated electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon.
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NEW YORK -- What a difference a year makes. If last year's Super Bowl ads were fueled by gross humor, this year's are running on nostalgia and cute cartoon characters.
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The head of the Cartoon Network resigned Friday following a marketing stunt that caused a terrorism scare in Boston and led police to shut down bridges and send in the bomb squad.
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For many small businesses, a marketing budget is usually nonexistent. That hasn't stopped George Suarez, co-owner of New England Comics, from promoting his comic books.
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By KEN MAGUIRE BOSTON - More than 10 blinking electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon.
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Games between the New York Yankees and  the Boston Red Sox have, for at least the last half-century,  attracted a media mob fascinated with every scrap of  information about the famous rivalry.
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As image spam declines, a new type of pest takes its place.
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The head of the Cartoon Network resigned Friday following a marketing stunt that caused a security scare in Boston.
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When a network that has  "cartoon" in its name sets out to do its first original  live-action movie, it only makes sense that the live-action  part would seem a bit, well, cartoonish.
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The company has come up with some on-demand advertising. Will it woo viewers?
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ATLANTA - The head of the Cartoon Network has resigned after a marketing stunt that caused a terrorism scare in Boston.  The announcement of Jim Samples' resignation came Friday in an internal memo to Cartoon Network staff.  Mr.
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A television show that  dramatizes federal investigations is now finding itself at the  center of a real-life FBI probe into copyright infringement.
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Turner Broadcasting Systems and Interference Inc. have agreed to pay $2 million for a Cartoon Network advertising campaign that caused a widespread bomb scare, the attorney general said Monday.