Sunday, February 21, 2010

Pots Throwing Stones At Kettles In Glass Houses

Last week a well-known broadcaster was critical of the planned stage-managed Tiger Woods apology:
It's going to be selected invitees only, surrounded by good friends and family for this announcement tomorrow morning. Which has everyone expecting this is going to simply to be a pre-orchestrated, pre-read statement and he is not going to front up to the questions.
So has his management team got this wrong? Is this the right way to go? Because remember, as soon as Tiger goes to golf tournaments the same paparazzi, the same tabloid reporters, are going to turn up to those tournaments until Tiger answers the questions that I guess the salacious side of the world wants answers to.
The broadcaster was Tony Veitch, the man who you may recall assaulted his partner and then later held a press conference where he read a prepared statement and answered no questions.

Veitch's mea culpa never sounded particularly convincing. And he can't be struggling too much with the enormity of what he did, because he appears to have forgotten that not so long ago he was the man reading the pre-prepared apology.

Re-hiring Veitch was always a huge risk for Radio Sport. I wonder how they are feeling about it now.

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