Great minds think alike. That was my first reaction, reading Maureen Dowd's column in the esteemed New York Times. Maureen echoed my sentiments on the Tiger Woods debacle, expressed in my NoRiskZone blog on Friday, Dec. 4.
In her column on Sunday titled “The Lady and the Tiger,” Ms. Dowd discussed the public relations failures of Tiger Woods and Desiree Rogers, social secretary for President Obama. Rogers is at the center of a controversy involving alleged White House party crashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi.
Of Woods and Rogers, she said, “trouble trespassed into their privileged worlds and both responded the same foolish way.”
Ms. Dowd continued, “They presumptuously put themselves beyond authority and, despite all the public relations support on earth, broke the first rule of scandal: Don't stonewall. Admit your mistake before others piece together the embarrassing facts. Reflexive clampdowns don't work in an era when privacy is passé and when some media outlets are out there giving cash incentives for true confessions and fake reality.”
You can read Maureen Dowd's column at this link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/opinion/06dowd.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
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