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Come Back, ‘Crazies and True Believers’

Agreed with and enjoyed Harold Levine’s column “Up With People,” [A&C, Sept. 3] regarding the advertising agency becoming a conglomerate, stock-watching international commodity. Advertising often looks like it, too.

Bankers and lawyers have never been risk takers and most are boring. Now, it appears their philosophy has seeped into promotion.

Even the media is becoming colored with a few corps that own the whole spectrum of print, broadcast, etc. Where the hell are the crazies and the true believers such as Luce, Peterson, Meredith, McCormick … the list is quite long and I can not think at this moment of a single publisher who fits those specs.





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