Combined with the economic meltdown, media executives had the knee-jerk reaction to knee-cap free, ad-supported content in favor of subscriptions.
"His leaving wasn't a knee-jerk thing," said one music industry executive apprised of the discussions, adding that top Sony executives in Japan and the United States, "think it's a good idea".
The RFU chief executive, Ian Ritchie, has said there would be no knee-jerk decisions over Lancaster's future.
As a human being, Steve Jobs is the very definition of the word "jerk;" yet he's also the greatest chief executive alive.
In 2007, he was caught on the phone with a television executive calling a member of his center-right coalition "a jerk" and asking the executive to meet with a showgirl.
His language, by shock-radio standards, was quite mild: he merely described the chief executive of CBS and his former boss as "the biggest jerk on the planet".
PAGE C14 Television Reviews Jerk Pitcher in Retirement Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are executive producers of "Eastbound & Down" (beginning Sunday on HBO).
ITV executive chairman Michael Grade has accused regulators and the government of a "knee-jerk" reaction to obesity by imposing restrictions on TV junk food and drink advertising.
"We don't say, 'You jerk, you wasted $15,000 ," says Edmund Brown, who oversees several area executives in the Northeast.
Martin Barnes, chief executive of Drugscope, the national drugs information charity, says "we should avoid panicky, knee-jerk responses.
