Could you explain why you think ‘too much focus being placed on PR’ resulted in bad press?
Perhaps something like: because people were worried about harming SBF’s public reputation they didn’t share their concerns with others, and thus the community as a whole wasn’t able to accurately model his character and act appropriately?
More like, some people did share their concerns, but those they shared them with didn’t do anything about it (because of worrying about bad PR, but also maybe just as a kind of “ends justify the means” thing re his money going to EA. The latter might actually have been the larger effect.).
Ah ok—I guess I would phrase it as ‘not doing anything about concerns because they were too focused on short-term PR’.
I would phrase it this way because, in a world where EA had been more focused on PR, I think we would have been less likely to end up with a situation like SBF (because us having more of a focus on PR would have resulted in doing a better job of PR).
Could you explain why you think ‘too much focus being placed on PR’ resulted in bad press?
Perhaps something like: because people were worried about harming SBF’s public reputation they didn’t share their concerns with others, and thus the community as a whole wasn’t able to accurately model his character and act appropriately?
More like, some people did share their concerns, but those they shared them with didn’t do anything about it (because of worrying about bad PR, but also maybe just as a kind of “ends justify the means” thing re his money going to EA. The latter might actually have been the larger effect.).
Ah ok—I guess I would phrase it as ‘not doing anything about concerns because they were too focused on short-term PR’.
I would phrase it this way because, in a world where EA had been more focused on PR, I think we would have been less likely to end up with a situation like SBF (because us having more of a focus on PR would have resulted in doing a better job of PR).