UC Davis Chancellor spent $400K+ to scrub her online reputation after pepper-spray incident / Boing Boing
▻http://boingboing.net/2016/08/17/uc-davis-chancellor-spent-400.html
Back in April, we learned that UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi had hired a sleazy “reputation-management” company to scrub her reputation and that of the university after the 2011 incident in which university police lieutenant John Pike hosed down peaceful protesters with pepper spray, jetting chemical irritant directly into their open mouths and eyes.
The bill for that “scrubbing” was over $175,000. But turns out that she hired two other companies to try to prevent the taint of scandal from landing on her, spending more than $400K in all on the fruitless exercise.
This isn’t her first terrible adventure in “reputation management.” At her previous job at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she forced her aides to edit her Wikipedia entry — over their protests — when it emerged that children of big-ticket donors were given admission preference to the university.
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