Politics Politics

For a guy that is so indifferent about most political issues, it’s a little surprising that one of my favorite movies is All the President’s Men, the tale of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s unearthing of Watergate.

Perhaps it’s my fanboydom of Robert Redford, perhaps it’s just the amazing quality of the story, but perhaps it’s something more.

Something deeper.

Perhaps it’s the moral of the story. Or, rather, the morals of the story.

Ben Bralee

One of my favorite scenes is where the wise Post bigwig, Ben Bradlee, is reminscing about the time he took a lot of flack for a story he wrote, just as Woodward and Berstein were for theirs.

Then, in one of those important moments of forshadowing, he turned and said,

“I screwed up…but I wasn’t wrong.”

Panels Don’t Decide

Every pundit around may call your marketing a failure. They may call it the worst marketing of the year. They may stoop and jab and throw a left hook right below your marketing belt.

They may say you screwed up, but you may not be wrong.

Lists and awards are given by imperfect people with imperfect views on imperfect marketing. So when someone drops the #fail hashtag on your efforts but you know they were the right choice, don’t be afraid to stand tall and defend your work.

You may have “screwed up”, but you may not be wrong.

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