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And galling.
And disgusting.
And positively shameful.
It makes me feel deeply ashamed of the industry I used to be part of, about which I felt such wonder and pride. Boy, not any more.
They’ll take a LONG time in self-analysis and tons of different emotions, trying to “figure out” what went wrong. There’ll be defiance (we were just doing our jobs!) and embarrassment (you have to try to understand where we were coming from…) and more. Woodward & Bernstein will write more “let us explain it all to you” books and go on everybody's talk shows and lecture circuits, and the next time something like this happens - again - as it inevitably will, the only truth will be that we really haven’t learned a damn thing.
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