El Pollo Loco has launched an ad campaign ridiculing Kentucky Fried Chicken for, gulp, using “beef powder and rendered beef fat” in its new grilled chicken marinade

The New Haven Advocate pulled a pretty sharp stunt this week, outsourcing nearly all of the paper’s editorial content to freelance writers in India. That may seem pretty clever. But I wonder if the Indian journos who contributed knew they were being set up as punchlines. Somehow, I doubt it. And that’s not cool.