I think the same applies to how the media portrays aviation. Most folks
don't give a flying fig. It's hits close to home with us because we're
pilots and accuracy matters because we know what real accuracy should be.

It hits home with us because it =does= matter in a very real sense.
Nobody is likely to close down college football because reporters get
some nits wrong. OTOH, aviation is in real danger from the
misinformation that the public receives.

It's one thing to keep getting the genetics wrong about the prizewinning
lily in Oregon. It's quite another to keep getting the genetics wrong
about Frankenfoods (whose primary and very real danger IMHO lies in the
ecology changes they cause, both natural and artificial).

And for the record, the particular inaccuracies in the report cited by
the OP didn't bother me all that much, except that they are systemic,
and when all inaccuracies are added up, we get the DC FRZ.

Jose
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