Over at Esquire, Ben Collins writes (accurately) about Roger Goodell as “a visual representation of everything wrong with corporate America squeezed into one empty suit made of blood and money.” See, Roger Goodell, World Class Client of Crisis Communications Experts, Still Needs to Resign.”
Collins can be confident because he saw Goodell’s 9.19.14 news conference.
Collins wasn’t writing about anyone in Wisconsin, or Walworth County, or Whitewater, but his critique of Commissioner Goodell could apply to more than one official in the Badger State:
Roger Goodell’s latest trainwreck was a Friday afternoon hour of buckpassing under the increasingly transparent guise of “crisis management.” He littered a 3 p.m. press conference with the same sort of faux MBA talk that has reaffirmed a corporate American culture wherein all problems can be coached away if the bottom line is unaffected….
It would’ve been great, say, five years ago. It might have even passed for leadership….
This is see-through public relations, and the jig is up. Americans can now imagine the board room in which “I GOT IT WRONG: 4X” was scrawled in perfect cursive upon a white board. They know it’s happening, and they know it’s subhuman, and they’re a little appalled by it..
The tired phrases, the tropes, clichés, jargon, argot, buzzwords, etc.: they’ve been used too often, and at the wrong times, to persuade any longer.
The national press will battle, and likely vanquish, an NFL commissioner who has it coming.
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, others will do their part against those small, but equally disappointing, closer-at-hand versions of Roger Goodell.
Video clips —
Roger Goodell spoke for forty-three minutes on Friday:
Keith Olbermann finished him off in six: