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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
I guess next thing you know somebody will be criticizing Terri for making a statment to the zoo employees the day after Steves death....guess she couldnt really care for him too much if she could take the time to talk at them huh?
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Your sarcasm is delicious.
He built that zoo up. I doubt anyone would argue that the people working at the zoo would be anything less than good friends of his, if not "damn near family". Those people would definitely fall under the umbrella of
any person's definition of "people close to him".
So, no, no one would criticize her for that- I don't even understand how you could possibly equate the manager talking with the media at large, with his wife privately addressing the people Steve worked with at the zoo, who would be close to him.
I love sarcasm, but I find that sarcasm is best, in conversation, when you have a valid point (or
any point, really) to make.
I guess not everyone would agree with that.
/sarcasm
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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
I'm sorry, Analog, that's not going to cut it. He's the manager of a celebrity who died a high profile death. It's unreasonable to think the guy could make it out of this without talking to the media. This is a big story; it's a tragic story. People want to hear about it.
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I didn't say don't talk to them at all, ever. I said they can wait until he's ready- and since you're all blaming his lack of word control on his grieving, then I'm saying he should have grieved enough that he's able to make statements. He could have taken one extra day. Sidenote: I don't give a flying monkey's ass
what people want to hear about. People can wait.
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The structure of our society doesn't support that choice and you're being intentionally obtuse and insensitive to say that he's realistically in a position to do otherwise. YOU might not care about the pressures of the media world and might wish they didn't exist, but that does not make them somehow disappear for someone who has spent his entire life and career immersed in them.
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We don't owe anything to the media. His job, if he's a friend, is to his friend and the family- and last I checked, Irwin is dead and no longer in need of a publicity manager. From here on out, he would manage his intellectual property interests, if anything. Right now, Irwin's interests are his family and friends that need to cope. This guy could have waited (a few more hours? a day?) until he felt ready to talk to the media. For a guy who supposedly spends his life immersed in the media, he made a poor choice to speak extemporaneously while under such severe circumstances. There's no reason he couldn't have waited a few more hours, or until the next day.