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      <![CDATA[You give entirely too much validity  to The Sun-Times. The Sun-Times is by its own admission a tabloid. That is not a reference to the size of its pages, either. Would you hold up an article from the National Enquirer as anything remotely valid? Of course not. Lazare seems to have a grudge against DDB in general, and relishes every time a discontent within the agency forwards him an internal communication. But you can't lose sight of the fact that he is a tabloid writer. Uninformed or partially-informed gossip is not journalism. The "top creatives" were upset because they felt they deserved the promotion more than anyone else. They were jealous, ill-tempered (wonder why they didn't get the promotion?) and left the agency. Lazare made it sound as though the opinion of a couple discontents reflects the opinion of the entire agency. You might as well believe that BatBoy is real and living in a Florida trailer park.
        
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      <![CDATA[The rush to loathe advertising is easy enough; i think it has more to do with knowing a social group through the most viable examples of their work than it does to do with some kind of national ocean-river of self-loathing over the prevalence of the ad in our media. That's not to say that the stereotypical cynical ad creative isn't a type rooted loosely in reality. Way down there there's a critical/philosophical truth about everything being an advertisement of some sort, whatever moral/ethical disadvantaged advertisers have is simply a matter of semantics or being more upfront about what they want, which is your money. all art is political&c.
    
    i am, for no ready-at-hand reason, reminded of the advertisements for a certain kind of candy that involved a bunch of CGI cartoon elephants playing reggae together. i wondered what the hell kind of child demographic responds to rastafarian elephants, then i realized the ad was a double-barreled reach for both kids and stoned people. 
    
    louis lazare is one of the few daily-paper ad industry writers, i think. i actually kidn of like the shop-talk ring of his column, although i can't imagine it'll be around much longer.
        
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