Article: Too Soon to Give Up on Old Media; Successful Plan Must Include Wide Reach of Mass Media Plus New Players.(Media&Tech)

Byline: Adam Armbruster

Special to TelevisionWeek

I remember my grandfather teaching me an important lesson about business presentations. He said when he was in a room full of very smart people, all of whom were pitching him a big new idea, if he was the only one who did not understand the idea, he knew he was about to get fleeced. Only he didn't use the word "fleeced.''

I thought about this comment recently when I was being pitched by an interactive agency on its "Total Media Solution'' plan for a large auto retailer that did not include any mass electronic media. It had all of the supposed digital answers for us, but it could not point to a ...

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