State Assemblywoman Michele Fiore has an intriguing idea on how to punish pimps: castration!
“If you really want to get serious about stopping the pimps and stopping this horrific activity… come to us legislators with a bill for chemical castration or straight-up castration.”
This is certainly an interesting sound bite. It’s good. In fact it’s too good. The story has generated intensive worldwide coverage.
And here’s the problem with such a powerful sound bite: it can define an entire career. Fiore can serve in the Nevada legislature for another 30 years, but I suspect she will always be known as the “castration lady.”
If this it absolutely the most important issue to her, then that’s fine. But chances are, there are other issues that are of equal or greater importance to her, that will now be overshadowed, forever.
So here is the media training rule: There is no easier way to get widely quoted than to call for ripping off the body parts of bad guys, but be prepared to have that sound bite chase you around for the rest of your career.
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