Seven dead, life-threateningly injured, districts raining toxic soot flakes and a river polluted with toxins. One year after the catastrophe, all this does not seem to cause more than a shrug of the shoulders. Agenda-cutting – the art of removing issues from the agenda – seems to have taken full effect. In PR jargon, this is called crisis and reputation management.
They talk about: “Incident water” instead of highly contaminated fire-fighting water, a “new safety culture”, a monitoring circle instead of transparent information and – the most creative new word: “nevertheless incidents”.
How something like this works: https://arbeitsunrecht.de/currenta-explosion-worthuelsen-bingo-bei-wdr-stadtgespraech/