Not My Job: Promoting Your Stupid Newspaper In Your Stupid Video

The advertisement for the Washington Post’s iPad app starring Bob Woodward and Ben Bradlee that was roundly mocked by the snarkosphere (you can watch it here if you’ve somehow missed it til now) is somehow less weird and more…part of a continuum now that a tipster has pointed us toward this WW2-era newspaper promotional video.

Made to teach the “good, hearty stock” of Minneapolis how their newspapers were produced and throw in a little good old back-patting and self-congratulating along the way, you can almost see the anguish behind these reporters’ and columnists’ eyes.

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