Flutterby™! : Delphi Technique in Public Meetings

From Shadow: Exposing the Delphi Technique in Public Meetings (YouTube), on how public meetings are usually run with a fixed set of choices in order to force the illusion of consensus.

"Trust the process, there's going to be lots of time for discussion."

Yep. I could rant a whole lot longer, but, yeah, this is exactly the process. And it's also important that we find ways to build a news organization to expose and explore the decisionmaking processes earlier.