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  1. Jun 2023
    1. During this ''honeymoon" period, Coler made himself and his agency generally accessible to reporters--;, welcome change. "I had dealt with the previous administration at HRS," says Miami Herald reporter Andres Viglucci, "and it was kind of night and day. Under Coler they were a lot more open; the previous administration was run like the CIA.''

      Despite negative press Coler did know how to engage with the public and the media when discussing the work that he was trying. I definitely see an example of "bottom-up" and horizontal communication in an Organic firm.

    2. Tragedy is hard news, and the avoidance of it is so/I news. How do you ever win that game? I got more hard-to-place klds adopted in Florida than anybody ever thought could get done. You know, they didn't get two lines [in lhepress] ... , It's just tough. ... In child abuse and neglect, it's like you're playing a football game and when the evil opponents score, the scoreboard doesn't just light up-Ibey have a five-day discussion of It.

      This section reminds me of something I heard once on a television show. It involved national intelligence and the security of the country. How "our victories are silent but our mistakes are loud". Hardly anyone remembers Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man who tried to detonate a plastics bomb on a Norwest Airlines flight on Christmas. Everyone remembers Ted Kaczynski aka "The Unabomber" I know hindsight is 20/20 but I wonder if Coler had ever even thought about the perception of having close acquittances next to him with HRS and how it would look?