Monday, December 3, 2007
The Bell Jar
Don Imus is back. I listened to a clip of Mr. Imus this morning on NPR. He explained that what he said about the basketball team was wrong and how he's gone back and reviewed interviews during his last days on CBS. He now realizes it didn't matter how many good deeds he had done for charity, people shouldn't have cared because there was no excuse for what he had said and that using that defense did not offset the negative.
I think he's trying to set a new stage. Is now the time to come clean or is he simply repeating the negative? The answer is simple: He is on the offensive knowing that the media will do its job by reminding us what transpired last spring. He is trying to put his crisis behind him once and for all so that his new effort can be successful.
Imus also said that he'll use his new show on New York's WABC to further race relations. That's good news indeed. Do you think this time he has professional public relations counsel behind him?
I believe that he might have avoided a great deal of pain had he sought proper public relations counsel and taken a different path last April. No matter what your feelings about Imus are, his future will be interesting. I would imagine that many will be watching and taking note. You might say that he'll be under the bell jar.
Don Imus is back. I listened to a clip of Mr. Imus this morning on NPR. He explained that what he said about the basketball team was wrong and how he's gone back and reviewed interviews during his last days on CBS. He now realizes it didn't matter how many good deeds he had done for charity, people shouldn't have cared because there was no excuse for what he had said and that using that defense did not offset the negative.
I think he's trying to set a new stage. Is now the time to come clean or is he simply repeating the negative? The answer is simple: He is on the offensive knowing that the media will do its job by reminding us what transpired last spring. He is trying to put his crisis behind him once and for all so that his new effort can be successful.
Imus also said that he'll use his new show on New York's WABC to further race relations. That's good news indeed. Do you think this time he has professional public relations counsel behind him?
I believe that he might have avoided a great deal of pain had he sought proper public relations counsel and taken a different path last April. No matter what your feelings about Imus are, his future will be interesting. I would imagine that many will be watching and taking note. You might say that he'll be under the bell jar.
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