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by dmix 2379 days ago
The 1990s of those initial failures also predated the information heavy internet hyper analysis and outrage machines
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It's the messenger's fault. Of course!

What arguments do you have that show that lots and lots of articles about about Boeings culture change are all wrong or insignificant (not a contributor to the Max's issues)?

I'm also not sure why you think a heuristic that uses amount of outrage as an inverse measure of the validity of an issue is a useful one. I would assume the connection is either non-existent or very weak, meaning you cannot infer anything useful about an issue from how much it is being discussed in the media and in public forums.

The point of the comment was that people likely cared less because people heard about it significantly less.
You are reading a great deal into an innocuous comment.
Given what we know now, after the outrage took out of the closet a lot of information previously obscured and out of the limelight, about Boeing's issues in production and design and the regulatory capture of the FAA: do you still think this whole backlash against the 737 MAX is purely the internet hyper analysis and outrage machine?
Nope, that wasn't my point obviously. Just highlighting it was a different time for media and analysis.