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October 20, 2013 by Karen Friedman Leave a Comment

The modern art of apologizing

Everyone’s doing it. Lance Armstrong told Oprah he was sorry for doping during all of his seven Tour de France victories. Failed New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner apologized for letting a lot of people down when he let his pants down. Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution scandal but wants you to trust him again so he ran for city comptroller. Philadelphia Eagles receiver Riley Cooper apologized for screaming a racial slur that was caught on video and went viral. And let’s not forget former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford who said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail when he was actually with a lover in another country. Oops.

There are real apologies and self-serving apologies. And in today’s spin-cycle of trying to right wrongs, it’s increasingly difficult to tell the difference. Take Armstrong for example. He looked serious as he confessed to wanting to control everything and admitted he could not have won without the drugs. But then he said he didn’t feel bad about cheating. If so, then why did he go to so much trouble to conceal it? [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Philadelphia Business Journal Tagged With: apology, Communication, Karen Friedman, Lance Armstrong

January 18, 2013 by Karen Friedman Leave a Comment

Op-Ed: How Lance Armstrong can bounce back

Lance Armstrong apologizes

FORTUNE — Fifteen years ago, Lance Armstrong launched one of the most successful nonprofit organizations to address the needs of people affected by cancer. Since then, Armstrong’s Livestrong Foundation has raised more than $470 million to help more than 550 organizations conduct cancer survivorship research or offer services to people affected by cancer.

That doesn’t include a big win Armstrong helped score for the foundation’s home state of Texas, where voters passed a referendum guaranteeing $3 billion in funding for cancer research.

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January 18, 2013 by Karen Friedman Leave a Comment

Op-Ed: To Armstrong, It’s Still All About Lance

 

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Lance Armstrong apologizes

Since it was announced that Lance Armstrong would sit down Oprah Winfrey to address the doping allegations against him, speculation among the media and the public has been off the charts as to whether the interview with the cyclist would begin his road to redemption. Or not. PR News asked Karen Friedman, who runs media training firm Karen Friedman Enterprises, to monitor and critique Thursday night’s part-one interview with Winfrey on her OWN network (part two will air tonight). Here’s Friedman’s scorecard:

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Filed Under: Op-Ed Tagged With: apology, audience message, Business reputation, career, Lance Armstrong, media communications, news story

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