Originally Posted by
Abbey Road
A quote from the article: "The safety of our customers and crew is always our top priority and this was not compromised at any point." This sort of trite, fallacious nonsense trips so easily off the tongue of the automatons answering questions these days. It isn't true or sincere, and only a fool would believe it. It is merely specious 'filler', to take up space and/or fill time when questions are asked. It is enough to make you vomit.
Quite so. However
PR departments have discovered that when they say it, news editors always put it in, first, and it fills half the space available for the airline's response. So it's there at the beginning of their press response handbook.
Once written (by a journalist) : "Safety is our first priority" statements generally follow an event which proves that it isn't.