Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Even the Pope Needs PR

After Benedict XVI's recent lift on the excommunication of four bishops, one being a Holocaust denier, he created quite a row in the Jewish and Catholic communities around the world. 

In his efforts to try to reach out to the outlier groups who supported these bishops he caused a blunder of a PR problem.

Had he been advised about the impact of the releasal of this information and had the facts and decisions been constructed clearly with concise reasoning behind them there might not have been such an uproar. The miscommunication came when the information was thrown out into the public haphazardly without reviewal or critique.

Now the Vatican is on high alert to try to douse the flames.

I guess this goes to show us that even when the economy is down and it doesn't seem like there is much going for us new job seekers, we can still take some consolation in the fact that everyone in the public eye still needs to look good, and we are usually the ones behind that.

1 comment:

sergiop said...

This one was kind of obvious. The Catholic church may claim itself as "conservative", but they surely find themselves in the center of controversy time and time again. In my opinion, it's about time that the Pope realized that he need some PR in his holy life! With all the scandals the church is involved in, this wouldn't be in the top ten. It could actually help the situation.