Thursday, December 10, 2009

 

Dealing with Reporters on a Regular Basis

Via Sailer, "The Michael Jordan/Tiger Woods Model: Why It Will Never Work With The Media," . The title has it wrong, but the article is good. The strategy is to intimidate reporters and cut off access to any reporter who ever prints anything critical. The drawback is that if the athlete's stock ever falls (e.g. Tiger Wood's), even the hitherto friendly reporters hate him and have repressed stories to tell. The tradeoff can be worth it, though.

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