Aug 18th, 2005 · Target department stores bought every advertisement in The New Yorker magazine this week. Target did this before, when it bought all the advertising space in an issue of People magazine. Alex Chadwick talks with Slate contributor Bryan Curtis, who examines what the buy-up says about Target's prime audience.
Keywords: Department · audience · Alex Chadwick · magazine · stores · Yorkers · Advertisers · The New Yorker · Middlebrow · Bryan Curtis · Space
Mar 1st, 2005 · After a 12-season run, the last episode of ABC's dramatic series NYPD Blue airs Tuesday. Slate contributor Bryan Curtis says that the show broke ground in terms of sexual content on network TV, but eventually lost out to cable shows that could be even more explicit.
Keywords: network · TV · ABC · bidding · episode · Sexual · NYPD · Middlebrow · Bryan Curtis · NYPD Blue
