Bob Garfield is a prominent and influential columnist, critic, essayist, pundit, and personality. His weekly "Ad Review" in "Advertising Age "singles out individual ads for well-deserved praise or scorn and is the most watched and discussed column in the advertising industry. Garfield--who also cohosts NPR's "On the Media""--"has been a columnist for "USA Today", contributing editor for the "Washington Post Magazine", and contributor to the "New York Times", "Playboy", "Sports Illustrated", and many other publications.