Towns: Not impressed with presser

Leroy Towns is not impressed with the Mary Easley press conference.

The UNC-Chapel Hill journalism professor writes on his Talk Politics blog that a press conference led by a "mouthpiece" will only fuel the controversy:

Can’t this woman speak for herself? Apparently not, given the sad performance at Thursday’s news conference. It was lawyer talk. Schiller deflected questions about details of how she got the job and raise by falling back on the fact she has a contract that should be honored. While it might have been an adequate legal presentation, it failed miserably as a media relations/public relations/political communication performance.