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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Some of you guys who aren't lawyers seem pretty ready to try to get WAY into the weeds and parse the meaning and intent underlying press statements by people who do this for a living. Hell I'm a lawyer and even I don't want to guess how much went into selecting specific words; could be lots to read into, could be nothing, I don't know because I don't do this specific type of law and could only really speak at a high level. This isn't even law as much as practice and unless you do this on a day to day basis I wouldn't try to guess at what X or Y step or statement means by reading between the lines.
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I don't think the legality or word choice really even needs to be questioned hard here.
In PR there's generally a single goal: don't make your organization a talking point or news story through the news releases you let out (unless you're expressly trying to). In this case they chose different words than their peers, and the result is a lot of public scorn. I don't think it's useful to debate whether or not the public is right in feeling this anger- but I think it's pretty clear they do.
Is that not then a failure of the flames PR team? I think it is.