Internal Employee Emails Reveal So Much > Why Try To Control The Public Records Requests???

At least in one instance - there are many more to get revealed - attempts by an entrenched company culture to control the mainstream media narrative to evade public scrutiny have shown that just doesn't work.
News source REUTERS reported early this morning the results when hundreds of internal emails were forced to be released by the Boeing Company after months of spoon-feeding the story they wanted out to the public.
One including in the hundreds released said the plane was “designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys”.
No doubt Boeing should get credit for disclosing what the Reuters reporter David Shepardson termed the “destructive diatribes”, . .
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BLOGGER NOTE: That's one example for some hard-fought results of persistent  and tenacious investigative journalism.
There's more hard work ahead to keep the spotlights on in the public eye for the demands and assertions to encourage more transparency and accountability in company/corporate and government cultures.
The good fight doesn't end with just one revelation >
Here on the local level in Mesa and The State of Arizona there's plenty more stories to get told and published.
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'Designed by clowns': Boeing employees ridicule 737 MAX, regulators in internal messages

David Shepardson 5-Minute Read

U.S. |

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co has released hundreds of internal messages that contained harshly critical comments about the development of the 737 MAX, including one that said the plane was “designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys”.

The messages, disclosed on Thursday, show attempts to duck regulatory scrutiny with employees disparaging the plane, the company, the Federal Aviation Administration and foreign aviation regulators.

4:36am EST

https://www.reuters.com/article

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> For a factbox on excerpts from employees’ messages, click on 

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PEARLY GATES CLOSED

"The disclosure, which Boeing said was in the interest of transparency with the FAA, prompted renewed outrage from U.S. lawmakers and puts more pressure on Boeing’s new CEO David Calhoun to overhaul the company’s culture when he takes the reins on Monday.

House Transportation Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio, who has been investigating the MAX, said the messages “paint a deeply disturbing picture of the lengths Boeing was apparently willing to go to in order to evade scrutiny from regulators, flight crews, and the flying public, even as its own employees were sounding alarms internally.”

Senator Roger Wicker, who chairs the commerce committee leading the senate’s probe into Boeing, also said the latest documents “raise questions about the efficacy of FAA’s oversight of the certification process.”

The U.S. Justice Department has an active criminal investigation underway into matters related to the 737 MAX plane.

Some of the messages pointed to problems with the simulators. Boeing said on Thursday it is confident “all of Boeing’s MAX simulators are functioning effectively” after repeated testing since the messages were written.

The messages, however, show Boeing in the past was doing all it could to lobby aviation regulators to avoid the need for airlines to train pilots in a simulator on the differences between the 737 MAX and the 737 NG.
Boeing should get credit for disclosing the “destructive diatribes”.
“Initially the flying public will understandably have reservations but the aircraft - having been completely and responsibly resurrected - will likely be one of the safest planes around, . . "
-- Shukor Yusof, the head of Malaysia-based aviation consultancy Endau Analytics, is quoted as saying.
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In other emails and instant messages, employees spoke of their frustration with the company’s culture, complaining about the drive to find the cheapest suppliers and “impossible schedules”.
“I don’t know how to fix these things...it’s systemic. It’s culture. It’s the fact we have a senior leadership team that understand very little about the business and yet are driving us to certain objectives,” said an employee in an email dated June 2018.
And in a May 2018 message, an unnamed Boeing employee said:
“I still haven’t been forgiven by god for the covering up I did last year.”
Without referencing what was covered up, the employee added:
“Cant do it one more time. the Pearly gates will be closed...”