For what it’s worth, my theory is that the avalanche of media criticism this past few months has been like a dam wall bursting. Historically, the press had pulled its punches with the national carrier,
Precisely. The staff have been saying these things for more than a decade, if anyone cared to listen.
Harbison amazingly wrote another puff piece, an Ode to Joyce if you will, only this weekend.
If Joe Aston and others had followed the late Steve Creedy’s ethos of pulling the pants off the corporate BS emanating from Coward St, Joyce and the board a little sooner, we might have discovered that under all that BS, the emperor really did have no clothes before the situation became obvious to even the most blinded of sycophant suckholes.
Much pain might have been avoided and the ‘Roo may be in far better shape than it finds itself today.