Dan Luke Wrote:
"H.P." wrote:
The piece with the pilot reporter and the interview with Phil Boyer
were
pretty fair, IMHO.

I agree. Compared to what we have seen from the media in the past, I
thought
CNN did a pretty good job overall.

When I saw the O. P. and read the program description on the CNN
website yesterday I actually decided to leave work early and go watch
the program. I thought I'd be witnessing the beginning of the end of
G. A. and I was ready to be ****ed off by the usual ignorant media
scare-mongering, but I was pleasantly surprised by the rational and
accurate analysis of the situation. The dude from NORAD said as soon
as they got along side the perp they knew there was no threat from a
Cessna single, and that info was immediately relayed to the top of the
chain. I'm guessing that by that time they had already pushed the big
red button and there was no way to tell every rent-a-cop in D. C. to
stand down. Miles O'Brien is now my favorite talking head. He
actually straight out said you couldn't do significant damage with an
airplane that's 1600 ponds soaking wet! Somebody needs to tell Boyer
to ditch the comb-over, though . On the 10 o'clock news here in the
Phoenix area the story wasn't up until 12 minutes after the hour, after
the American Idol update. The story didn't even make the front page of
today's Arizona Republic.

-R