When One Seeks Updates on the Brown University Shooting, It Shouldn't Devolve Like This |
It’s a horror show. That’s all I can think of right now. Every time the authorities get in front of the cameras to give an update on the Brown University shooting, it becomes another episode of Keystone Cops. This heinous crime is tragic—two people were killed. It’s also become a textbook case in how not to address the media or handle a crisis.
And no, you don’t need years of experience to know that when you have zero answers, maybe you shouldn’t hold a press conference.
“I don’t know” isn’t the phrase anyone wants to hear, and yet that’s what Brown University president Christian Paxson said when asked a basic question about what was happening inside the building where the school’s........