On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> > For me, Cosby has bizarrely transcended to this place where I just want > him to go away. Someone suggested that it'd be in his best interest if he > just went into seclusion somewhere far away for the rest of his life, but > Cosby just seems quixotically determined to respond to all this the same > way he always has, expecting others to behave as they always have, except > they aren't. I get the feeling he either has no crisis management people or > he's flat-out ignoring them because he knows so damn best. You'd at least > think his lawyers would be telling him to shut the fuck up. At this point, > every time he opens his mouth things become worse. It's as if the > patheticness has somehow neared the monstrosity of the actions. > Clay Shirky wrote a book called Here Comes Everybody about the change in organizing people in the age of the internet. One of his early examples is the case of the catholic church about ten years ago. ten years ago some victims of sexual abuse by priests came forward. This wasn't the first time it had happened and the church had, over the decades, formed a response and the allegations went away. Ten years ago, though, as the victims went online and shared their stories, other victims came forward as well and the church's response failed where it had previously succeeded. As the scandal snowballed it took a couple of years and court cases until the church realized that its tried and true approach was causing more trouble than it was solving. Cosby has also been dealing with accusations for decades and the response he developed has always worked. Unlike previous times he's not up against a single victim acting alone but a large number of victims plus the part of our society tired of deferring to privilege, whether it's male, rich, celebrity, or all three. Cosby is determined to stick with what always worked even if it continues to make things worse for him. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
