5 of 5 in Concealment moves
2018 / 2020
Public
Boeing · 2020-01
Company statement
“These communications do not reflect the company we are and need to be, and they are completely unacceptable.”
After-the-fact values language is a second register, not a confession. It reassigns the private sentences to a few bad speakers so the public sentence can survive.
The tell · “Does not reflect who we are” arrives after the tape. It is not evidence about the tape.
How this became public: Statement issued the week Boeing released the messages.
Keyboard: J / K or ← / → to move. S for sources. Esc leaves the pair.
Pipe: Company release. Statement issued the week Boeing released the messages.
Public claim
Boeing, corporate statement after the messages became public
2020-01 · Company statement
Official statement
Private artifact
Unnamed Boeing employees, staff on the MAX
2015-2018 · Internal messages later released by the company
Article
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