I like this, we're Franklin's pet dogs according the the AMA's "parrot". Is that what it means to be a leader member, to be someone that will keep repeating the company's boxed propaganda until others finally believe it's true?
This kind of reminds me of something I read, in the book Shattered Sword. A subordinate of Admiral Yamamoto was sent from the Hashirajima fleet anchorage to Tokyo with a preliminary version of the plan for the attack on Midway. After he made his presentation, what he had stated as fact was summarily destroyed by a lower level officer from the Tokyo fleet headquarters. After repeating his points, as written in the attack plan, and being totally destroyed a second time, he called Admiral Yamamoto(on the battleship Nagato), who stated he'd resign unless his plan was approved.. The plan was approved for further work, only to be pushed ahead with the full support of fleet headquarters after the Doolittle raid a few weeks later.
In the present case, the AMA doesn't have the possibility of a last second reprieve like Admiral Yamamoto did, given to him by the Americans. The AMA's rhetoric and chest banging isn't going to change the situation it's found itself in, almost completely by it's own doing. The AMA didn't take the time to look ahead and take into account the changing technology and how people would be using that technology. They just assumed that things would always stay the same and it would always be business as usual