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I 'love' when board acts lightning fast on publicity rather than on the long lasting problems.

They sure look being a 'reliable' and 'competent' gang now.

I seriously doubt that the space launch failure had anything to do with the CEO being fired.

That's rarely how these things work.

Most likely some PR firm working for Boeing fed some hints to the the Times.

Boeing then waited until it was released to have a coordinated PR push and put as much blame as possible on Muilenburg.

The NYT article relies mostly on named sources, not anonymous sources. So it doesn't seem to be intentionally leaked information.

And the board looks horrible, slow to act, behind the curve, reacting to external pressure instead of leading. So it would not be in the board's interest to do a "coordinated PR push" and fire Muilenburg after the stories were published.