CBS NEWS - An Idea

[Harry Gordon]

If someone else has already made this suggestion, I apologize.

CBS apparently takes great pride in raising the fear in the hearts of
Americans. Lately that fear has been focused on the GA news item, which I
didn't see because I don't watch CBS news.

I began thinking that the reason this "grab your socks, the world's coming
to an end" news item on GA may not be because of the threat GA poses, but
rather because GA is not a sponsor of CBS News. Truck rental companies are
or certainly have the potential of becoming a sponsor and surely, a network
news team wouldn't "blast" their sponsor, would they?

So, how about AOPA and the Be A Pilot organization buy some advertising time
during the CBS News show and talk/show how great GA really is?

Having just taken great pride in slamming GA, I wonder what the CBS News
management team would think as they watched, and knew America was watching,
a family enjoying a flight through the open skies over the Rockies or the
wheat lands or maybe even showing the joy in landing at a GA airport that
has a great BBQ place close by....

Just an idea.

:-)

Harry, PP-ASEL
San Antonio, TX (we have some great BBQ here)

[C J Campbell]

I think CBS News' attitude has a lot less to do with sponsorship or any real
security and concerns than it does with Dan Rather's personal and political
agenda.

The producers of the show own property near runways. Perhaps they would like
those runways closed. And if you can portray the Bush administration as
being lax on security during an election year, then so much the better.

[Tom Sixkiller]

"Harry Gordon" > wrote in message
...
> If someone else has already made this suggestion, I apologize.
>
> CBS apparently takes great pride in raising the fear in the hearts of
> Americans. Lately that fear has been focused on the GA news item, which I
> didn't see because I don't watch CBS news.
>
> I began thinking that the reason this "grab your socks, the world's coming
> to an end" news item on GA may not be because of the threat GA poses, but
> rather because GA is not a sponsor of CBS News. Truck rental companies are
> or certainly have the potential of becoming a sponsor and surely, a
network
> news team wouldn't "blast" their sponsor, would they?
>
> So, how about AOPA and the Be A Pilot organization buy some advertising
time
> during the CBS News show and talk/show how great GA really is?
>
> Having just taken great pride in slamming GA, I wonder what the CBS News
> management team would think as they watched, and knew America was
watching,
> a family enjoying a flight through the open skies over the Rockies or the
> wheat lands or maybe even showing the joy in landing at a GA airport that
> has a great BBQ place close by....
>
> Just an idea.

We don't pay people not to rape us.

[Steve Robertson]

Harry Gordon wrote:

> <snip>
>
> I began thinking that the reason this "grab your socks, the world's coming
> to an end" news item on GA may not be because of the threat GA poses, but
> rather because GA is not a sponsor of CBS News. Truck rental companies are
> or certainly have the potential of becoming a sponsor and surely, a network
> news team wouldn't "blast" their sponsor, would they?
>
> So, how about AOPA and the Be A Pilot organization buy some advertising time
> during the CBS News show and talk/show how great GA really is?
>

If you pay attention to whom is sponsoring the 3 major news shows, including
CBS, you will notice that virtually all of the commercials are for medicine. And
far and away the most number of commercials are for laxatives. I'm not kidding.
Watch and see for yourself. GA would be wasting it's money advertising to the
sick and constipated.

While I don't condone CBS's actions, keep in mind that YOU don't believe
everything you see on the news. Why assume that everybody but you believes it?

Best regards,

Steve Robertson
N4732J 1967 Beechcraft A23-24 Musketeer

[C J Campbell]

"Steve Robertson" > wrote in message
...
| >
|
| If you pay attention to whom is sponsoring the 3 major news shows,
including
| CBS, you will notice that virtually all of the commercials are for
medicine. And
| far and away the most number of commercials are for laxatives. I'm not
kidding.
| Watch and see for yourself. GA would be wasting it's money advertising to
the
| sick and constipated.

Says something about CBS viewers, doesn't it?

|
| While I don't condone CBS's actions, keep in mind that YOU don't believe
| everything you see on the news. Why assume that everybody but you believes
it?
|

The trouble is, some people will believe it, even the ones that don't
believe everything they see on the news.

Personally, I am reaching the point where I don't believe anything I see on
the news.

[Casey Webster]

"Harry Gordon" > wrote in message
...
> Harry, PP-ASEL
> San Antonio, TX (we have some great BBQ here)
>

you ought to fly up to 6R9 and take the courtesy car out to coopers, thats
some good bbq :)

now if only the weather here in austin would clear up...

[G.R. Patterson III]

Harry Gordon wrote:
>
> So, how about AOPA and the Be A Pilot organization buy some advertising time
> during the CBS News show and talk/show how great GA really is?

Once you pay Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

[Maule Driver]

"C J Campbell" > >
> Personally, I am reaching the point where I don't believe anything I see
on
> the news.
>
Someone explained to me that the only thing you can get from news media with
some reasonable assurance of accuracy are the "actualities". I don't know
abou the word, but it goes something like this with regard to the CBS
report:

From that report I can reasonably assume that:
- there are airparks where people live with their planes
- there is an airpark called xxxxx in Virginia
- the former NTSB official did work for the NTSB.

....and that's about it. The rest of it can't necessarily be believed. You
might as well be sitting in a bar talking to someone you just met about GA
airport security, or anything else for that matter.

I try to remember that whenver a plane crash is reported. No matter the
details reported, all I can reasonably assume is that a plane crashed.

[Milo]

>
> We don't pay people not to rape us.


Damn straight! Why should we (I send my share to AOPA) help these
punks out? Don't support those who currently advertise there, as a
matter of fact, call them and tell them you will not purchase what
they are offering as long as they are advertising with CBS.

[Dave Stadt]

"Maule Driver" > wrote in message
r.com...
> "C J Campbell" > >
> > Personally, I am reaching the point where I don't believe anything I see
> on
> > the news.
> >
> Someone explained to me that the only thing you can get from news media
with
> some reasonable assurance of accuracy are the "actualities". I don't know
> abou the word, but it goes something like this with regard to the CBS
> report:
>
> From that report I can reasonably assume that:
> - there are airparks where people live with their planes
> - there is an airpark called xxxxx in Virginia
> - the former NTSB official did work for the NTSB.
>
> ...and that's about it. The rest of it can't necessarily be believed.
You
> might as well be sitting in a bar talking to someone you just met about GA
> airport security, or anything else for that matter.
>
> I try to remember that whenver a plane crash is reported. No matter the
> details reported, all I can reasonably assume is that a plane crashed.


Can't even assume that as they consider someone landing without scratching
the plane after an engine out to be a crash.

[G.R. Patterson III]

Maule Driver wrote:
>
> I try to remember that whenver a plane crash is reported. No matter the
> details reported, all I can reasonably assume is that a plane crashed.

And always remember that if it happened frequently, it wouldn't be news and they'd
never report it.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

[Harry Gordon]

Been there, done that, and ate the left overs a couple of days ago!!!! And
we even got the courtesy car :-). I've eaten a lot of BBQ and some of it
really good. But I must say, it has been a LOOOONNNNNGGGGGG time since I had
any as good as Cooper's.

Not only that but I really enjoyed our short stay at 6R9. Met Rick, the
airport manager; a really nice guy.

Harry

"Casey Webster" > wrote in message
...
> "Harry Gordon" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Harry, PP-ASEL
> > San Antonio, TX (we have some great BBQ here)
> >
>
> you ought to fly up to 6R9 and take the courtesy car out to coopers, thats
> some good bbq :)
>
> now if only the weather here in austin would clear up...
>
>

[R.Hubbell]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:30:18 GMT "Harry Gordon" > wrote:

> If someone else has already made this suggestion, I apologize.
>
> CBS apparently takes great pride in raising the fear in the hearts of
> Americans. Lately that fear has been focused on the GA news item, which I
> didn't see because I don't watch CBS news.
>
> I began thinking that the reason this "grab your socks, the world's coming
> to an end" news item on GA may not be because of the threat GA poses, but
> rather because GA is not a sponsor of CBS News. Truck rental companies are
> or certainly have the potential of becoming a sponsor and surely, a network
> news team wouldn't "blast" their sponsor, would they?


It's a lot simpler than all that. Just stop watching CBS.
I watch very little TV and life's better without it. Most of
it has nothing to do with my life or with anything that's very
interesting.

It is certainly ironic that the centennial of flight was just celebrated
and CBS is now bashing GA, where it all began.

R. Hubbell

>
> So, how about AOPA and the Be A Pilot organization buy some advertising time
> during the CBS News show and talk/show how great GA really is?
>
> Having just taken great pride in slamming GA, I wonder what the CBS News
> management team would think as they watched, and knew America was watching,
> a family enjoying a flight through the open skies over the Rockies or the
> wheat lands or maybe even showing the joy in landing at a GA airport that
> has a great BBQ place close by....
>
> Just an idea.
>
> :-)
>
> Harry, PP-ASEL
> San Antonio, TX (we have some great BBQ here)
>
>

[Tom Sixkiller]

"G.R. Patterson III" > wrote in message
...
>
>
> Maule Driver wrote:
> >
> > I try to remember that whenver a plane crash is reported. No matter the
> > details reported, all I can reasonably assume is that a plane crashed.
>
> And always remember that if it happened frequently, it wouldn't be news
and they'd
> never report it.

A few weeks ago there was a fatal car accident at the intersection near my
house. Two people killed, intersection tied up for four hours, Med-evac
flight....

Didn't receive even a single word of mention in the newspaper.

OTOH, every "special interest" (read: hype for another government program)
story....

[David H]

Harry Gordon wrote:

> So, how about AOPA and the Be A Pilot organization buy some advertising time
> during the CBS News show and talk/show how great GA really is?

Feed the hand that bites, eh?

David H
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[Maule Driver]

"Dave Stadt" >
> >
> > I try to remember that whenver a plane crash is reported. No matter the
> > details reported, all I can reasonably assume is that a plane crashed.
>
> Can't even assume that as they consider someone landing without scratching
> the plane after an engine out to be a crash.
>
You're right. Maybe only that a plane came down somewhere 'unintended' and
'unexpected'...maybe not even that.