Well, color me confused.
What is Advertising Age, which I understand to be a magazine covering the ad industry, doing making political commentary which has little if anything to do with their field.
Too, isn't it likely that a fair number of their readers are conservative/Republican? What makes them think their readers will greet this with glee?
When my wife was in J-school almost fifteen years ago, she came to me with a monograph and asked me to read it, so she could confirm her initial opinion of the piece.
It was written by a professor of journalism from Columbia, and the subject was the propriety of a journalist injecting their political opinion into hard news.
After reading it, we found we were in complete agreement on the author's thesis...it's okay to for the journalist to inject their political opinion if they have REALLY REALLY agonized over whether they should do it or not.
I'm not kidding.
I am an ad agency owner and a subscriber (until today).
Frankly, Ad Age is out of touch with the real USA, anyway. Liberal, NY-elite types who couldn't run a real business or work for themselves.
See ya!