70 Year Magazine Archive

Disinviting Ron Ziegler

by John Guaspari

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It was, ultimate-media-eventwise, a delightfully incestuous show. Photographers snapped the communications students, who questioned the reporters, who questioned the students, who mugged for the remote TV unit, which broadcast the newsperson, who interviewed the Dean, who didn’t want the former Press Secretary to communicate with the communications students.

“Should Ron Ziegler appear?” the three-column, 36-point advertisement in a Boston University student tabloid had asked, and students from the School of Public Communications (SPC) convened for an “open forum on the issue.”

JG

About the Author

John Guaspari

John Guaspari is a retired management consultant and the author of several business leadership books from Walpole, Mass., who now spends his time writing, enjoying his children and grandchildren, playing golf, and deciding just when the time has come to be done with such a silly game and toss his clubs into the nearest dumpster.

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