Advertorial of the Day

Published Nov 22 2006, 07:07 PM by Adam Reilly

"Are you planning to go to Wrentham Outlets at midnight for Black Friday shopping deals?"

No, Jenn Abelson, I'm not. Why do you ask?

Maybe it's just coincidence, but Abelson's query tops the list of "Reporter's Questions" on the Globe's home page on the same day that the Wrentham Outlets have a big fat ad advertising their post-Thanksgiving sale (starting at midnight!) plastered on page A7 of the paper.

Planned or not, this is tacky.

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3 Comments

GC said:

Man, whatever happened to *reporting*? Is she too lazy to go to Wrentham at midnight, so she's just going to have the folks who do go call her later and tell her how it was? I hate these reporter's queries; some of them I understand, but the others are just plain laziness.

November 22, 2006 7:56 PM
Steve Stein said:

Get used to it. But what I want to know is was this report planted as a part of the ad buy? I don't think it's possible to get a straight answer to this, but just the fact that the question occurs to me makes me question the Globe's reporting. And this has got to be bad for the Globe.

November 23, 2006 2:35 AM
ben said:

Too bad she's caught up in this because she has been a breath of fresh air with her grasp of retail stories particularly as compared to Tom Palmer and others who have attempted to cover it. She always answers email so Adam ought to just ask her how it happened.

November 26, 2006 4:53 PM