How to fail, but look good doing it via TheCitizen_News
Richard Anthony Chemaly entertainment attorney, radio broadcaster and lecturer of communication ethics.
This concept is applied to avoid trouble by engaging in email follow-ups, alerts, and any communication that could later be used to indicate that you’ve resolved your obligations, so in the event that something goes wrong, it could not be your fault. Or at least, there’s less risk of somebody saying it’s your fault.
So much so that it has been reported that when George Bush was warned about a terrorist strike 36 days prior to 11 September 2001, his response was: “Okay, you’ve covered your ass now.” The important issue is what we are and are not willing to accept once all is said and done. So if no more people die and the world keeps spinning, great. Best case scenario we can possibly foresee, and no doubt that will be acceptable.
This is challenging for a citizenry who may wish to question their representative’s actions, because if a question has an answer, even if it’s one you do not like, its existence cannot be disputed, and with CYA culture, it’s existence is all you need. Similarly, it should never be okay that the state has merely done something to address the spread because whatever it is, that something must also be plausibly effective. To merely accept “oh well they’re doing something” is to say we care less about the actual result and plays into the “as long as we can show we’ve absolved our duties” narrative.
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