Kev wrote:
On the good side of news reporting, I've often written 1010-WINS news
and corrected them on aviation information... and they fix their
reports! For example, when that pilot crashed with his family in a
city street a few years back, 1010 was reporting that the "large
gyroscope that keeps the plane upright" might've failed. I gently
trained them on the fact that the "gyro" that the NTSB was talking
about, was a small instrument. To my surprise, they quickly corrected
their story and replied to me with an apology that their "local
aviation expert was out of town".

So there's hope sometimes.


Sometimes... maybe. I've corrected our local stations on several occasions and
have never gotten any kind of response out of them. Not a thank you; not a
correction. And I always point out that they already have an in-house aviation
expert on staff: their traffic copter pilot. Apparently they'd rather leave
him out of the loop on the off chance that they can embarass themselves yet
again with lame reporting.

They'd rather be sensational than right.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com