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It is marketing. 1) they want all to "buy into" their proposed changes. 2) they want all to know how important their work is and why they should remain in the

• tlb 8y ago
  That level of cynicism may apply to some government departments, but agencies like the NTSB are much more grounded. When there's a bad accident on a ship that was more-or-less following procedures, owners and captains of ships really want to know what went wrong and why, so they can avoid it themselves. This is the sort of document that captains will read and discuss with their crew, not all of whom are highly literate in English, so it needs to be accessible and clear. It seems to me that the NTSB did good work here.