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Published · transcript-backedMary Roach: uncertainty
18 Oct 2017 Conversations with Tyler Mary Roach on Disgust, Death, and Danger (Live at Mason)
“” Deny, if it’s not true, or to do damage control — somehow spin it. I don’t know how you spin “the cheetah was sucked dry by fleas,” but I didn’t.”
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- Mary Roach
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- uncertainty
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- 18 Oct 2017
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…And why is that? I would answer the phones when the press would call. And sometimes the press would call with a question. Like this happened: Someone called and said, “I heard a rumor that the cheetah was sucked dry by fleas.” And the proper response for a public relations professional is to say “No. ” Deny, if it’s not true, or to do damage control — somehow spin it. I don’t know how you spin “the cheetah was sucked dry by fleas,” but I didn’t. My response was “Wow, how many fleas? How much blood in a flea? How much blood in a cheetah? How many bites? Is this even possible? Wow.” I was having a great time, talking to the reporter. Then my boss was, of course, horrified to learn that this is what I was doing. And was that your first job?…
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