Ad Agency Diversity Hearing Goes Sweet & Sour

NEW YORK (YouTube.com/AdAge) — The scene in New York’s City Council chambers during this year’s Advertising Week was dramatically different from that two years ago. Then, the Council’s Civil Rights Committee held a hearing on advertising agency racial diversity — and NO agencies showed up. This year a bevy of top ad agency executives attended. Councilman and Committee chairman Larry Seabrook offered them a mix of compliments and barbs.

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2 Responses to “Ad Agency Diversity Hearing Goes Sweet & Sour”

ScottfromTexas on March 11th, 2010 at 9:26 pm

Why are Black …
Why are Black Supremacists allowed to be called “Civil Rights” this-or-that. Thanks for exposing this racism from the “Civil Rights Committee.”
TheRundownHeadsUp on March 11th, 2010 at 9:26 pm

Interesting…
Interesting…

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