Yesterday, I was watching PBS News Hour when a segment came up
about the steep rise in 2023 of near collisions on airport runways.
During this segment I heard, for the first time ever, the word
"Juniorocracy", used by aviation correspondent Miles O'Brien to
describe an industry currently staffed by many inexperienced workers.
A transcript of the PBS news segment is here:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/after-near-collisions-on-airport-runways-faa-calls-for-safety-review
Miles O'Brien:
"In the midst of the pandemic, there were lots of retirements, lots of
layoffs. And as the flying public has returned to the skies, almost
with a vengeance, we have a lot of new people, both in the cockpits,
in the cabins, in the air traffic control tower cabs, and, for that
matter, the people driving the vehicles that push and pull the
airplanes and service them.
So we have kind of a *juniorocracy* going on there, which is not
good." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This word is not recognized by Google Dictionary (= Oxford English
Dictionary).
A Google search for 'juniorocracy' comes up with just two results in
total: one was the above PBS news segment; the other result offered
another meaning for the word (July 20, 2022) - spoiled and sheltered
Preppies, each one having the power of thousands of real Americans,
all because of Daddy's Money. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Another segment in the same PBS News Hour may be of concern to non-conservatives:
"What a conservative activist (lawyer Leonard Leo) hopes to achieve
with a (1.6) Billion-dollar (dark money) donation (made in Aug 2022
by aged 90 Chicago businessman)"
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-a-conservative-activist-hopes-to-achieve-with-a-billion-dollar-donation
"Before that, Leo was known for his pivotal role in installing the 6-3 supermajority in the U.S. Supreme Court."
"Now what Leo is looking to do is expand that outward, so it's not
just talking about law, but talking about law and politics and culture
and media and bringing conservative values to all of those areas, and
creating a pipeline of individuals who can go and work in
organizations, in government advancing conservative causes."
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