While Advertising Age’s Jonah Bloom has had issues with what we’ve written a couple times, we are, without doubt, sure he’s going to take issue with what George Parker recently wrote about a column Jonah did on Crispin Porter + Bogusky backlash. Commenting on Bloom’s statement about ads being “events” and hatred of Crispin’s work actually being a good thing for the client, Parker wrote, “Listen Jonah baby, do me a favor, go and rent a copy of ‘The Hucksters’ and check out the scene where Sydney Greenstreet as ‘The Soap Baron’ spits up a huge gob of phlegm on the boardroom table to show agency guy Clark Gable how you go about catching the consumers attention. It’s disgusting, just like holding a pile of dog shit, or having a crazed Nazi with a Nurse Diesel assistant shilling for VW. You don’t have to spit in someone’s face to get their attention.”
Parker’s gleeful criticism doesn’t end there, adding, ” And don’t give me that shit about ‘Ads as events.’ They’re fucking ADS… Get it. If I want an event, I’ll go to the Super Bowl, and not for the ads. This is what happens when you have people who’ve never worked a day in advertising, writing about advertising. Pathetic!”
So who’s right? No bullshit George who has years of advertising experience or CP+B-defending Jonah who’s made a successful career in journalism?
