Art & Commerce: Burned By Bloggers

Have you ever scrolled through any of the blogs devoted to the advertising business?

You should for your own self-interest: You never know when you will find yourself on the receiving end of venom, when your picture will pop up on someone’s blog.

Last February, I checked out www.gawker.com, not strictly an advertising site, but one that features, in between interesting, well-written N.Y.-centric posts about random news and gossip, Copyranter’s “Lies Well-Disguised,” a send-up of the McCann Erickson motto about what advertising should be: “Truth Well Told.”