As a somewhat recognized social engineer in the PR/social media space (and an amateur cogsci type), I can't help but see the NFL management's sudden bandwagon activity in "taking a knee" and encouraging their players as being related to the prior two weeks of seriously bad publicity they were taking regarding Chronic Encephelopathy in longitudinal studies for impacts of pre-teen children without concussion.
This would be a great paper for some communications studies or related grad student out there. I'm quite sure that the change in press coverage would be found to be inverse and dramatic. The NFL is either learning from, or getting help from, the White House's methodologies of press control, IMO. Their moves will not hurt them on either side eventually, and are mitigating a long term disaster, and are helping them with a critical, existential threat. And that ain't a threat to black players -- rather the opposite -- they are leveraging a protest for racial issues to make it safe for them to cripple more black players, proportionately -- even the aspirational kids they do not recruit. Explains such a radical turn around in some of the management... Isn't it interesting when everyone's needs are met by the same gestures? yrs, -- Shava Nerad shav...@gmail.com
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