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Group: alt.sports.football.pro.pitt-steelers · Group Profile
Author: Rocky56Rocky56 Date: Jan 22, 2007 03:20
> Tank wrote:
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> I'm not pissed off in any way. Why is it a PR disaster? Are people going
> to stop being fans because they announce on Mon instead of Thursday?
> Please, get some perspective. LET THEM TAKE THE TIME TO MAKE A CORRECT
> DECISION. Don't rush it Steelers! Pick the right guy & we'll be hoisting
> trophy #6 lickedy split!
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> This is a PR disaster in the sense that evidently someone got a hold of
> a story that Tomlin was possibly hired and leaked it to Sports
> Illustrated which is a reputable source. Then, Tomlin denies it to
> ESPN's CHris Mortensen who is pretty reputable. THEN about SIX HOURS
> LATER, the same Chris Mortensen on ESPN CONFIRMS SI's story. THEN the
> Post Gazette and the Beaver County Times both say that the STeelers deny
> the SI story. THEN, The Tribune comes up with some story that Grimm was
> hired. NOW comes official word from the STeelers on their website that
> NO ONE has been hired. Mortensen has even read the statement on NFL
> Countdown. Now, while you are telling me to get some perspective, do YOU
> think this is good PR? I sure as hell don't. Someone needs to get
> their facts straight if you want my opinion.
I think that's more of a negative commentary on the media than it is on the
team. In sports stories they have a lot more leway as far as 'speculating'
and it's not such a big deal if they're wrong. So they tend to put a lot
more credibility into unnamed sources than those doing hard news have to
(not that I'm all that impressed with the credibility of the hard news
people either). I don't see this as any kind of PR disaster for the
Steelers, as someone else posted previously it's keeping them in the news
and giving us fans something interesting to read about during what's really
the off-season for us already.
Like Tank said, it's only important that the Steelers make the RIGHT
decision, not how fast they report it to the world.
Rocky
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