Thursday, June 24, 2010

The Human Touch?

Today, some two months after the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon Rig, the NY Times posted that "Faced with the continuing American furor over its gaffe-prone British chief executive, Tony Hayward, BP is putting a former Mississippi resident in charge of handling the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and its aftermath."

He doesn't have a British accent like Tony Hayward - he has a "Mississippi" one, so the media'll probably be more accepting.

He apparently knows "what crabbing, shrimping and fishing is about". Geez.

I guess the human touch, a familiar face, even in situations that are obviously calling for calculated expertise and cold calm, is important. I don't know - aren't we letting our emotions take over here? Does this really matter?

Hmm. The Human Touch. The Familiar Voice.

I wonder.

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