The Bridge Collapse
We mourn for the six road workers who lost their lives while making sure the bridge was cleared of ordinary civilian traffic in the moments before the ship struck it.
As the recovery teams work to ensure that each of these workers' families have closure, the questions are coming up -- just what did happen? Official sources say that they've ruled out terrorism, but other people suspect something subtle and nefarious, perhaps some form of hack.
However, it's looking more and more like it can be adequately explained by cutting corners in maintenance. The sea is a very unforgiving place, and this ship has already been cited for mechanical faults, and has had an accident that resulted in property damage.
So the real question is who is going to be held responsible for what is looking more and more like a gross lapse of appropriate care? Will some actual decisionmakers face trial for creating the dysfunctional corporate culture that creates these situations? Or will it be business as usual, in which some low-level person will be chosen as a scapegoat and thrown to the wolves, while the senior executives' lives bobble along unchanged?
As the recovery teams work to ensure that each of these workers' families have closure, the questions are coming up -- just what did happen? Official sources say that they've ruled out terrorism, but other people suspect something subtle and nefarious, perhaps some form of hack.
However, it's looking more and more like it can be adequately explained by cutting corners in maintenance. The sea is a very unforgiving place, and this ship has already been cited for mechanical faults, and has had an accident that resulted in property damage.
So the real question is who is going to be held responsible for what is looking more and more like a gross lapse of appropriate care? Will some actual decisionmakers face trial for creating the dysfunctional corporate culture that creates these situations? Or will it be business as usual, in which some low-level person will be chosen as a scapegoat and thrown to the wolves, while the senior executives' lives bobble along unchanged?