My hypothesis is that they had an agreement where Scott couldn't talk to the press, but he did anyways. Since it happened the CEO just didn't know how to handle

My hypothesis is that they had an agreement where Scott couldn't talk to the press, but he did anyways. Since it happened the CEO just didn't know how to handle it well and was probably somewhat serious that the repercussions would be firing Scott (as the only option), something he probably didn't want to do.