{"id":3099,"date":"2006-05-18T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2017-12-20T16:15:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T22:15:35","slug":"boeing-ceo-doesnt-wear-horsehair-shirt-self-flagellate-to-post-dispatch-reporters-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/boeing-ceo-doesnt-wear-horsehair-shirt-self-flagellate-to-post-dispatch-reporters-satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing CEO Doesn’t Wear Horsehair Shirt, Self-Flagellate to Post-Dispatch Reporter’s Satisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CEO of Boeing gives a speech at Saint Louis University, sponsored by the Boeing Institute of International Business at SLU’s John Cook Business School. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> reports Boeing chief skips mention of scandal in speech<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Boeing Co. Chairman Jim McNerney’s first public speech in St. Louis was filled with historical references: Lewis and Clark, the real story behind the invention of the Post-it and why aviation pioneer James S. McDonnell set up shop here nearly 70 years ago.<\/p>\n

However, in his speech on Tuesday, McNerney steered clear of a recent development in Boeing’s history: a $615 million settlement with the Justice Department that allows Boeing to avoid admitting wrongdoing and criminal prosecution on corruption charges.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

"Reporter" Tim McLaughlin goes on to list a number of scandals and shoddy business practices that preceded the CEO’s assumption of the Chief Executive post. McLaughlin then throws in an aside to why he<\/i> thinks the CEO should half turned the collegiate appearance into a weepy, mea-culpa Oprahesque piece of failure and redemption at the audience’s pity:<\/p>\n

Not mentioning the scandals and the subsequent tentative settlement in the speech was notable, given that McNerney left 3M Co. to rebuild Boeing’s reputation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s nothing but a self-justification for this particular story<\/strike> list of anti-Boeing bullet points.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we at MfBJN note that McLaughlin didn’t bother to mention the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i>‘s declining circulation<\/a> or job cuts<\/a> in this article. We have to wonder why not<\/i>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The CEO of Boeing gives a speech at Saint Louis University, sponsored by the Boeing Institute of International Business at SLU’s John Cook Business School. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Boeing chief skips mention of scandal in speech: Boeing Co. Chairman Jim McNerney’s first public speech in St. Louis was filled with historical references: Lewis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18769,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions\/18769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}