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There have been some rocky days lately at JWT. The worldwide CEO was bounced. The cause: A suit by the communications director, Erin Johnson, charging a pattern of racist and sexist remarks.

This brought forth comments in Ad Age by Gene Secunda, a former JWT communications director. He links the Martinez firing to a general undercurrent of racism and sexism at JWT in the past.

He says there were smug currents of bigoted conversation and behavior that flowed under the surface. He says Jews had to keep a low profile and rarely advanced. He says no disabled men or women were present. He says this was JWT in the early sixties. He says the Martinez affair shows old JWT habits die hard.

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