Memos fly at IPG but don’t quite add up

[This item updates an earlier post, which frankly we had to rewrite, given ongoing developments.] It seems that AdFreak has become AdLeak over the past few days. It all started with Adweek.com’s story about a possible merger of Draft and Foote Cone & Belding. In response to that story, IPG CEO Michael Roth (shown here) tossed off a memo admonishing the troops for leaking information to the press—a memo that was, of course, itself immediately leaked to the press.