BOTW – The shoe edition: Adland’s cobblers children, and a kick in the teeth over The Market Herald

Welcome to Best of the Week, written on a pleasant, chilly morning at Sisters Beach, Tasmania, after a busy 48-hour trip to Sydney.

Today: Why the media and marketing world needs to stop going on about the cobblers’ children and fix the bloody shoes; and the war for The Market Herald approaches the end game.

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The cobblers’ children grew up and left home, barefoot and resentful. They never got the shoes you promised them

Tim Burrowes writes: