day no. 15,120 continued... panic mafia

Panic mafia, n. Someone who takes the responsibility of relaying the newest facts very seriously without taking any responsibility for the ensuing panic their prophesying produces. They want to look like they have done everything they could while denying that they had anything to do with the attending consequences they caused. And when all is said and done they will congratulate themselves for how their panic propaganda saved the day while blaming all of the attending infrastructural consequences on someone else's unpreparedness and incompetence.