• Direct Marketing News, Thursday, December 15, 2011 2:48 PM

I won't change a thing about this article by DM News writer Juan Martinez: "The debate over whether consumers prefer to shop online or by catalog was dealt a decisive verdict this week. Intellectual luminary Angelina Jolie came down hard on e-commerce in a rather frank discussion with USA Today about such weighty topics as the Bosnian War, child adoption and Billy Bob Thornton's disgusting blood.

“When asked if she did her Christmas shopping online, Jolie brought the digital world to its knees with the following judgment: 'Brad and I were on Amazon.com for the first time a week ago. But we got lost. After an hour, we just shut it off. My brain is too scattered and the wires go in different directions. I'll stick to catalogs.' Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is in the fetal position, sucking his thumb, wondering if he should have stuck to lemonade stands."

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