The Snaring Economy 0
The Guardian considers the ongoing (mis)management melodrama at Uber following the recent departure of the flack PR specialist who was supposed to fix it. A snippet (emphasis added):
But Whetstone’s job was arguably the most challenging of them all: public relations and policy for one of the most scandal-hit companies in America.
“I think basically you have a Donald Trump-like situation at Uber,” said crisis management specialist Jonathan Bernstein. “It doesn’t matter what his communicators say, ultimately it’s about what Travis Kalanick says. It’s like the problem Sean Spicer has – no matter how much he tries to spin, his boss is going to say something on Twitter he doesn’t know about and he ends up looking like an idiot.”