The company once called tone-deaf finally heard what its consumers had been saying all along and then responded.
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Then, there was Obama's equally tone-deaf decision to name Janet Napolitano to head the Homeland Security Department.
The new director general, Tony Hall, said the organisation "could not be tone-deaf" to what the public have said about large pay-offs.
And Romney has demonstrated a remarkable ability to utter similarly tone-deaf gaffes.
But the rock star may have been growing tone-deaf long before his embarrassing revelation, says Mr Page, who has followed Mr Jackson's political career for 30 years.
Every small child wants to be a pop star, but what do you do if you are grown-up, tone-deaf with as much rhythm as a bowl of apples?
One person who seems less than enthusiastic about the fact that there will soon be a new Democratic sheriff in town is the increasingly tone-deaf Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
You could make a case for this as a feature-film version of the FCC's fairness doctrine, but it feels more like a blandness doctrine, a pulling and hauling of the tone-deaf script, which is credited to Matthew Michael Carnahan, to the point of perfect vacuousness.
As a side-show, a tone-deaf trade association of struggling European telephone companies known as ETNO put on a full-court press to dupe developing nations into endorsing a plan that would subsidize failing local telcos, many of them state-owned, by taxing the most popular Internet content providers, including YouTube, Facebook, and Yahoo!
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But a stake has not yet been driven through the misconceived scheme's heart -- either remarkably obtuse or tone deaf to the larger public issues, the Jets failed to get the message.
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