Lack of 'brand backbone' pains Motrin

Jack Neff's Ad Age post puts Motrin-gate in perspective. Particularly interested in this clip:

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These days, everybody owns a brand. Individual voices and opinions count more than ever. 
But companies can't be so quick to cave to the latest focus group or mob of bloggers.  

Someone must have a plan; someone must be tending the light at the end of the brand tunnel. 

Motrin-gate revealed more than a handful of poor creative executions. In the end, it exposed 
an absence of 'brand backbone.' And this is perhaps the most damaging outcome of the debacle.