Some Love, Some Jabs for Ken Auletta

Ken Auletta this week got the kid glove treatment from Charlie Rose, who quizzed him on the makeover of Lou Dobbs from corporate cheerleader to self-appointed mouthpiece of the American middle class. It was far different from the treatment Auletta got last week at a New Yorker breakfast sponsored by the Newhouse School and held at the Condé Nast building in Times Square.

In a flower-anointed room with just-so lighting holding the likes of New Yorker editor David Remnick, CBS digital’s Larry Kramer, the New York Times‘ Stuart Elliott, Henry Schleiff, Jack Myers and other media luminaries, Auletta was the questioner of Martin Sorrell, the head of advertising megalith WPP.