Vince McMahon Meeting at RAW

[The CyNick]

Dave Shearer over at 1wrestling has a post up about a meeting that took place with WWE talent at RAW, the following is an account of what happened at the meeting:

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At this week’s talent meeting before Raw, Vince McMahon was very animated about both in his feelings concerning people, like myself, who cover the professional wrestling business, as well as the disdain he feels for those of his employees who talk to the wrestling press (which, it should be mentioned, he has instructed his PR department to cut off all ties with already). In the speech, during which I was told he referred to wrestling reporters as “parasites”, he expressed confusion as to why his employees would talk to the wrestling press. He was said to be really upset that all of the details from the previous pre-television meetings that the company has had recently have been reported. I am not sure of his exact wording, but he definitely implied that if said wrestlers were found to be leaks, they would be ex-WWE wrestlers post haste. Again, as we have talked about in the past, this is the very reason why we are always forced to quote “unnamed sources” in WWE news stories. A source going on the record will get more heat than you can imagine.

To hammer home his point about not leaking information, he said things like “it ruins the illusion” and “spoils the product for the fans.” I can tell you this Vince, many of your employees speak to the press because they are frustrated by the direction of your company and your inability to make obvious changes when they are staring you in the face. As frustrated as you are, many of them feel the same way when they see the same mistakes being repeated over and over again.
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Ive said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again, but VKM is an idiot. Vince should get on his hands and knees that he has this wealth of information and free market research at his disposal. Instead he threatens his employees' jobs if they talk tot he wrestling media. How dumb is that? I mean I dont recall hearing about Vince calling meetings during the big boom period to tell employees not to talk to the media. I guess when he reads positive things about himself in the Observer its all good, but when the same publication criticizes him for making dumb decisions its all of a sudden evil.

Vince should be so happy that there are enough people who are so crazy about the product that they would subscribe to a newsletter or visit a wrestling website. Instead he pisses on the people who care the most about the product. He really is a demented individual.