Company PR Disaster

The cluster discusses a company's botched public relations response to a controversy, particularly criticism over not releasing a talk and the resulting backlash on their reputation.

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Sample Comments

pcurve Mar 23, 2023 View on HN

It would've been a better PR for them to have not publicized it. They really didn't need to, because people would find out anyway.

mikecane May 16, 2012 View on HN

Post the damn talk and let people make up their own minds. This is a PR disaster.

mikecane May 16, 2012 View on HN

Post the damn talk and let people make up their own minds. This is a PR disaster.

richie5um Sep 3, 2016 View on HN

If so, seems like a rather bad PR _stunt_.

wnoise Dec 7, 2012 View on HN

Shouldn't you hope it wasn't worth the bad PR?

vaccinator Oct 26, 2020 View on HN

It wasn't a huge PR mess for no reason...

whycome Nov 20, 2024 View on HN

Why do you think that would be a PR nightmare?

Andrex Jul 16, 2020 View on HN

In the world where they're trying to mitigate PR outrage and legal fallout.

pavel_lishin Feb 2, 2011 View on HN

For a company that's usually so good about publicity, it really seems like they fucked up here.

X4 Sep 26, 2013 View on HN

Maybe corporate damage control..