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So this one is shy, engratiating, tentative. The Meta part is what I'm talking about as a mildly off-putting or disconcerting thing, as opposed to a just-the-facts Dragnet approach - just my personal reaction, Meta-me?
And I did specify comparing how all different spokespeople act, differently.
*** UPDATE, ON EDIT: Two days after this post, there were news articles starting last night (Saturday) that this Sheriff was in the first row at a basketball game (U. of AZ?). This while more contacts from the perpetrator(s) and more videos from the family were active in the news. My only point from the start was that this fellow - understandably, as has been said in news outlets - has been unfamiliar with high profile crimes and "how media works" in this jurisdiction and might pass the spokesperson role to somebody else. For me as a mere uncredentialed observer, it seemed from the start that he was talking too much about random whatever and seemed like he was watching t.v. blather to react to. He started out by talking about how he and his crew might be off kilter talking because of lack of sleep, the loss supposedly showing how hard they were working. It's just unseemly for him to be at a basketball game. It would be easy for him just to stay out of sight and let somebody else take turns with the talking to the media, while he could sleep or watch t.v.
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