I read today that the Denver Broncos fired their head coach. No wait, it was 'Agreed to part ways' and because the coach did not want to win as much as Elway. What poppycock. Why do US corporations have to BS ? Spin until they sound like idiots ? I"ll put odds on Elway firing Fox because they could not agree over Manning's future, but that is somewhat besides the point. Mostly I want to understand this growing tendency to chatter all day long and say nothing. On purpose, all the time.
seems that the press these days want to know everything. they feel entitled to answers (even if they're equivocations) and start nasty media campaigns about anyone who is non compliant. and the nfl is complicit, requiring teams to spend a certain amount of time at the podium. so, instead of the truth, you get platitudes and poppycock. did you see elways press conference? good thing he wasn't hooked up to a lie detector.
So you want Fox to hire a lawyer and sue for defamation of character and air all the dirty laundry? Many contracts/buyouts have "say no evil" clauses or the buyout gets clawed back. Been there done that, had it done to me.
Question to me ? I want Corporations to either shut up or communicate the relevant information. Elway was just the latest instance of useless drivel.
most likely fox wanted out as badly as elway wanted done with him. they came to realize they had different philosophies in trying to achieve the same goal. fox is a good coach, he'll find another job, not that he needs one financially. the bronco's problems had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with mannings injury. but i digress from the o/p's question. my apologies.
Recently a EU journalist admitted his newspaper wimped out and, by necessity of risk management, pulled some Charlie Hebdo content out of the paper. Struck me as refreshing candor, and in the same situation, a US manager would probably instead tell a white-lie and say: "no we did not wimp out at all, we had no intent to run that material..."
It's kind of like when company "A" buys company "B" then "A" puts out press mentioning "synergy", "added creativity", "a new bright future", etc... and the next day they lay off 50% of the workforce! It's just corporate BS to cover their arses..... rather than "well Elway had a problem with Fox... so Fox is out".
How does it 'cover their nice person" ? "No Comment" seems simpler and does turn the PR mouthpiece into an idiot.
With calculated, vague, vanilla, politically correct statements they basically admit nothing, offend no parties and therefore have no liability down the road resulting from their corporate statement. Nowadays when anyone says "no comment" it basically means "it's so bad we can't say anything without throwing anyone under the bus and we'll probably get sued if we single out the guy who's at fault" so they manufacture these PC blurbs to cover their butts. In the past the employees got fired, now they get nice polite eloquent emails stating that due to circumstances beyond the company's control their services will no longer be required.
