Block that metaphor!

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Thu Aug 14 01:08:05 UTC 2008


At 8/13/2008 06:49 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>(as the New Yorker blurbs put it)
>
>Just now on NBC's Nightly News, a report on the Olympics-based ad
>campaigns mentioned both commercial products and the two presidential
>campaigns all seeking to appeal to the 30 million or so nightly
>viewers, then concluding:
>
>"That's a lot of eyeballs they won't have another bite at."
>
>Yum yum!

Isn't the eyeball CBS?

Joel

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