A-B IN BEV ADVERTISING, ARCHBISHOP ROBERT CARLSON, SIGHTEM IN THE COUNTY

Berger's Beat
July 19, 2014

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A-B InBev buys media itself via its Busch Media in-house group. Domestic spending on all brands: $575 million. Now the account is being pitched by a number of agencies, a plum assignment. Starcom agency is in jeopardy of losing the account. . Earlier this week, Archbishop Robert Carlson was criticized for keeping secret about the identities of 63 credibly accused child molesting clerics. (The number comes from the church records disgorged in the recent civil suit against the now-defrocked Fr. Joseph Ross.) And in a new editorial this week, Carlson’s St. Louis Catholic Review opines (evidently with no irony) that “All of us in the Church (must) continue the crusade against abuse assertively and transparently.” The prelate is upset about controversial Louisiana Supreme Court ruling that is attracting national attention and that he says threatens “the sanctity of the confessional.”
BIG GOVERNMENT: FROM THE LOBBY AT 42 SOUTH CENTRAL, where you can see everything from the county executive and his ever present body man to folks scrambling to pay their 2011 real estate taxes to keep their homesteads out of the August tax sale: A woman with a tee shirt that read, “My Beaver, Your Wood.” Only in St. Louis County.