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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 82025, member: 40"] I'll add one more thing, CTO. Throw out the PR 101 manual--this isn't a common situation, nor some small scale corporate crisis than most people aren't paying attention to. This was a full fledged scandal being broadcast to millions internationally. Said scandal--and the sordid details being conveyed--were heinous enough to take the entire program down, and destroy JB's legacy in the process as a function of him ostensibly turning the other cheek while this kid got ostensibly molested thousands of times [per Schwartz's description]. Taking a less definitive approach wouldn't have made any sense. I understand where bees is coming from about how if anything is proven to be true, how JB's comments will make the eventual consequences worse. But let's be honest--even if JB had sat back and been as deferential as some would have preferred, he was at great risk for being taken down if any of this was proven to be true anyway. See: Penn State. So there was no point for JB sitting back and giving vanilla answers--he dropped the gloves. And it wasn't about instant gratification, it was about eliminating all doubt about him supposedly having knowledge or being complicit in anyway to a child being sexually abused on his watch. It changed the discourse about how the story was being described in the national media, and it brought a tremendous amount of scrutiny [and skepticism] to the way this story was being reported. It also wasn't about just sticking up for Bernie, either. Hell no. It was about JB protecting himself, his job, his program, and his long term legacy. If comes out, then he's toast. But he would have been toast if he'd merely read some non-controversial wishy washy prepared statement that didn't ruffle any feathers, only to have eventually come out anyway. This is an all or nothing proposition I fear--and has been ever since Schwartz pontificated about the story last night in a sensationalist manner on ESPN. [/QUOTE]

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