From Tony Jackson:
Camille Johnston, the Dodgers senior vice president for communications and chief spokesperson for the past two years, said on Friday that she is leaving the organization....Johnston's departure, which is officially being termed a resignation, comes just two weeks after the club named Charles Steinberg as executive vice president for public relations and marketing. Steinberg's hiring effectively inserted an additional bureaucratic layer between Johnston and Dodgers owners Frank and Jamie McCourt that hadn't previously existed since Johnston joined the organization in October 2005....
Despite Johnston's claim that she is resigning, multiple sources within the organization confirmed that she is being forced out....
After bringing in Johnston, the McCourts seemed, presumably on Johnston's advice, to fade into the background. The result was that they avoided much of the public criticism that had plagued their first year and a half after buying the club from NewsCorp in February 2004.
But the McCourts have long coveted Steinberg, a longtime Boston Red Sox executive who has worked for the Dodgers as a consultant since April. Johnston's departure makes her the fourth communications chief to resign or be dismissed while the McCourts have owned the team.
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Fire all the communications chiefs you want, but you still smell bad.
Funny though that four have tried, and failed, at putting lipstick on this pig.
Only four? Why does that number seem low?
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