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The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
As a “young professional” who reads Adweek, and read Neilan Tyree’s Man About Town column “Word to the wise: If you can’t say something nice…” [Adweek, Nov. 18], I want to be sure I understood you correctly.
Based on your column, it is not OK to say bad things about others within the industry to your friends via an e-mail. However, it is OK to implicate someone in a nationally published industry magazine as long as you don’t use their name?
As long as you only cite the agency they work at (Hill, Holliday) and their position (president/creative director), and reference a time and an incident (Scott Garrett … didn’t get a job at Hill, Holliday), then no one will know whose “character” you’re “assassinating”?
Frank Lopresti
Art director
Clarke Goward Advertising
Boston
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