Veksner: The Onion unfairly maligns us
August 5 2013, 11:37 am | | 2 Comments
By Simon Veksner, Head of Ideas, Naked Communications
So The Onion wrote an entertaining story about last week’s Omnicom/Publicis deal, headlined ‘Merger Of Advertising Giants Brings Together Largest Collection Of People With No Discernible Skills.’
“These two ad behemoths will have the industry’s largest and most formidable talent pool of people called ‘creatives’ who have never created a single thing in their lives,” the piece went on.
And we were all amused, in a crying-on-the-inside kinda way.
But I think they got it wrong.
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It’s only the viciously corporate world in which we operate that gives our work any value at all. We make a lot of money for people who contribute so little to the betterment of society. Sure, we’ve all convinced ourselves we have very hard jobs. But artists, novelists and screenwriters do it without the security of a place to show up at 8.30 (okay 9.15) every morning, or a $200,000 budget (grumble grumble, that’s too low), or a guaranteed pay cheque every month (even if there’s nothing left at the end of it, what between the mortgage payments and the new Audi).
geeze. get a sense of humour.