Martha Stewart’s initial public relations response to the charges against her was basically to lie in the background and keep everything hush for as long as they could. Martha Stewart did not speak to the public about the alleged charges she was being faced with, so she was having people she paid very well to speak for her. Stewart denied being guilty, and claimed she had done nothing wrong. The public or society became wary of her, and after the courts convicted her of being guilty, she began to look like a liar her consumers and just about to anyone else. Stewart not only still refused to really give the public an explanation, she also still refused that she was guilty of doing anything wrong. After the media coverage had been taken nationwide, Stewart still insisted that her attorney still to be the one speaking to the public. This article explained that Stewart would not make eye contact nor speak to the media reporters. Her attorney spoke for her, and Martha Stewart’s public relations initial response was to let the legal attorney do the talking. I believe the key public relations principle that Martha Stewart violated was not personally addressing the issue of the charges or accusations she was being initially accused and eventually convicted of. She did not give her consumers and stockholders an explanation for anything. After she was convicted, she never apologized for anything. She was found guilty and she still addressed the public only electronically over her website that she still believed she had done nothing wrong. Stewart should have addressed the public right on, and instead she completely avoided them like they might go away.