Jump-start Your Career
Martha learns a lesson
I have no interest in reading, writing or following Michael Jackson or Kobe Bryant. I find these stories simultaneously appalling and boring. The subjects indeed are sleazy, but the media coverage may actually be sleazier.
Likewise, I am not interested in keeping up with the details of Martha Stewart. But I do have one thought concerning her trial, sentence and jail time.
From what I can tell, there are no lessons to be learned. Neither for Stewart nor for the general public.
Well, except for this: It appears that the whole episode did not punish or harm her in any significant way, but, in fact, has likely helped her. As she takes leave of “Camp Cupcake” after serving her 5 months, her company’s stock price and her notoriety are at all time highs.
If you are wealthy or famous, perhaps a little white-collar crime and subsequent jail time are just the thing to jump-start a sagging career.
I have no interest in reading, writing or following Michael Jackson or Kobe Bryant. I find these stories simultaneously appalling and boring. The subjects indeed are sleazy, but the media coverage may actually be sleazier.
Likewise, I am not interested in keeping up with the details of Martha Stewart. But I do have one thought concerning her trial, sentence and jail time.
From what I can tell, there are no lessons to be learned. Neither for Stewart nor for the general public.
Well, except for this: It appears that the whole episode did not punish or harm her in any significant way, but, in fact, has likely helped her. As she takes leave of “Camp Cupcake” after serving her 5 months, her company’s stock price and her notoriety are at all time highs.
If you are wealthy or famous, perhaps a little white-collar crime and subsequent jail time are just the thing to jump-start a sagging career.
posted by Steve Trumbull | 3/03/2005
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