ATSB - Now Tendentious bloggers?
GD – “The ATsB 'We are on the defence' page is an embarrassing piece of work.”
P2 – “Not sure what it is with Byron Bailey and the ATSB but for some reason BB stirs up the 'powers to be' at the bureau to the point where they feel like they need to respond to defend their dismal & obviously obfuscated record.”
It’s a queer situation all round. Perhaps Hoody does not have ‘control’ of the MH 370 ‘thing’. There are some big players who will end up with egg on their faces – ministers and the like – who also had no input to the situation, but are publically in the firing line; like it or not. I reckon the ‘correcting the record’ webshite page has little to do with Hoody. It’s much more in the style of Creedy, GT and that Gibson creature, wannabe tendentious bloggers and active Trolls. I say this because the interview Foley and Hood did on RNZ was, IMO, very reflective of the Hood style and lifted the ATSB reputation out of the gutter for a couple of days, before the ‘CtR’ page started up again, which threw ‘em right back into the gutter. It’s a shame, Foley and Hood earned credit for that interview and had the sick public image on the road to recovery for a brief period; alas.
The big question in my mind is how can Hood and the ATSB extricate themselves from the bind Dolan dropped them into. No matter how you slice it up; the Dolan chapter comes out murky, shrouded in suspicion, clouded with doubt. The CSIRO are also besmirched, their drift modelling efforts being denigrated to simple cooperation with the ‘story line’. Gibson is turning up parts; Chillit has nailed the drift model; Howard has blasted the ‘suicide’ simulator to pieces and McEwan has just about killed off the bull-shit. Clearly, for whatever the reason, the search has been too far South. The less cynical and more forgiving minds would say ‘furry muff’, difficult task, big ocean, little fact and lots of pressure – easy to get it wrong and forgivable.
For mine, what will be unforgivable is to persist with the farce in the face of empirical evidence. A new search, in season, based on two years worth of valid studies will, quite probably find the aircraft – it may not – but it is a better bet than banging about the SIO, in winter over a dry hole. A smart move would be to pass the ‘search’ element back to AMSA; they actually have a clue about the oceans and search. ATSB could be assigned to ‘investigate’ the incident, it is what they are supposed to do (in theory). Get the whole shooting match back on an even keel and do it properly.
Like it or not; if there has been some sort of cover up; or even a massive cock-up, the Australian government of the day will catch some of the flack. Seems to me that a proactive stance now would go a long way to reducing the blow back; directing a revised search and finding the aircraft will see criticism of the government disappear like a dollar in the tax mans hand.
Hoody’s best hope for cred is in producing first class reports on incidents which occur on his watch, or are within his remit. That is what the ATSB is supposed to do.
Aye, ‘tis indeed a tangled web. Too many spiders, not enough flies.
Toot toot.
GD – “The ATsB 'We are on the defence' page is an embarrassing piece of work.”
P2 – “Not sure what it is with Byron Bailey and the ATSB but for some reason BB stirs up the 'powers to be' at the bureau to the point where they feel like they need to respond to defend their dismal & obviously obfuscated record.”
It’s a queer situation all round. Perhaps Hoody does not have ‘control’ of the MH 370 ‘thing’. There are some big players who will end up with egg on their faces – ministers and the like – who also had no input to the situation, but are publically in the firing line; like it or not. I reckon the ‘correcting the record’ webshite page has little to do with Hoody. It’s much more in the style of Creedy, GT and that Gibson creature, wannabe tendentious bloggers and active Trolls. I say this because the interview Foley and Hood did on RNZ was, IMO, very reflective of the Hood style and lifted the ATSB reputation out of the gutter for a couple of days, before the ‘CtR’ page started up again, which threw ‘em right back into the gutter. It’s a shame, Foley and Hood earned credit for that interview and had the sick public image on the road to recovery for a brief period; alas.
The big question in my mind is how can Hood and the ATSB extricate themselves from the bind Dolan dropped them into. No matter how you slice it up; the Dolan chapter comes out murky, shrouded in suspicion, clouded with doubt. The CSIRO are also besmirched, their drift modelling efforts being denigrated to simple cooperation with the ‘story line’. Gibson is turning up parts; Chillit has nailed the drift model; Howard has blasted the ‘suicide’ simulator to pieces and McEwan has just about killed off the bull-shit. Clearly, for whatever the reason, the search has been too far South. The less cynical and more forgiving minds would say ‘furry muff’, difficult task, big ocean, little fact and lots of pressure – easy to get it wrong and forgivable.
For mine, what will be unforgivable is to persist with the farce in the face of empirical evidence. A new search, in season, based on two years worth of valid studies will, quite probably find the aircraft – it may not – but it is a better bet than banging about the SIO, in winter over a dry hole. A smart move would be to pass the ‘search’ element back to AMSA; they actually have a clue about the oceans and search. ATSB could be assigned to ‘investigate’ the incident, it is what they are supposed to do (in theory). Get the whole shooting match back on an even keel and do it properly.
Like it or not; if there has been some sort of cover up; or even a massive cock-up, the Australian government of the day will catch some of the flack. Seems to me that a proactive stance now would go a long way to reducing the blow back; directing a revised search and finding the aircraft will see criticism of the government disappear like a dollar in the tax mans hand.
Hoody’s best hope for cred is in producing first class reports on incidents which occur on his watch, or are within his remit. That is what the ATSB is supposed to do.
Aye, ‘tis indeed a tangled web. Too many spiders, not enough flies.
Toot toot.