Idiotic News Reporters

There's only one Michael Bloomberg in New York state listed and the middle name
is the same as the mayor's.

He is, and he got a lot of crap in the local papers a couple of years
ago for taking the controls of an NYPD Helicopter and flying around the
harbour.

Kingfish wrote:
Jon Kraus wrote:
You are incorrect... He owns a 1992 Mooney Bravo tail # N504MB. No soup
for you!! ;-)


Gee, lucky for me I don't like soup G

The middle name of Rubens did it for me. G

OMG that is exactly what I was telling my wife this morning.

That would have been an embarrassment to Chicago. Daley almost looks like he
is TRYING to be inarticulate. And of course his knowledge of aviation is so
small as to be negative knowledge. In this area he is a veritable black
hole.

I too thought Bloomberg was very impressive. I did hear on the CNN broadcast
that he is a pilot, but half of what they said yesterday was probably wrong.

"Emily" wrote in message
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Owen wrote:
Dan Luke wrote:

"Ron Snipes" wrote:

Mayor Bloomburg handled it professionally, and stated that an airplane
of
that size would not have a flight data recorder.
Bloomberg was impressive. Calm and surprisingly knowledgable about
aviation,

Is he a pilot?

I don't think so, but I'd imagine he is quite familiar with general
aviation.

Just for kicks, imagine Daley if this had happened in Chicago.

I was surprised this morning; CNN's Miles O'Brien has been doing quite
knowledgeable coverage on this. He's a Cirrus SR-20 owner/pilot, and
had some very plausible scenarios as to how a new pilot/owner might
interact even with a CFI. Sometimes a CFI might let a situation occur
as a teaching exercise, but then it escalates out of control.

Media coverage IS awful, but we the viewers DEMAND continuous non-stop
injections of input from these people. They either find an interviewee
who will say something "relevant," or they give up the on-air thing.

I'm so old, I remember when JFK was murdered. I was in college. All we
could think of to do was to sit the Hell there and watch. I did that,
until Jack Ruby walked over and smoked Oswald, whereupon I left and
went to dinner. I believe non-stop coverage began that evening.


RON

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Ron wrote:
They either find an interviewee
who will say something "relevant," or they give up the on-air thing.

I saw that clip on CNN where they were making a case that these small
GA airports where not up to spec on security measures making it seem
like anyone can get into a plane and ram it into a building. What the
%@!& !!! Like you can't load a Rider truck with ammonium nitrate and
blow up a building? So we are to screen everyone owning and renting
out trucks or just pick on GA?

Tien

Owen writes:

Was any of that *not true*? From the pictures and video that I've seen,
it sure appears to have been true. If you were a reporter, what
descriptive words would you have been using to describe what was going on?

Debris falling, flames coming out of windows, smoke coming out of
windows.

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I saw that clip on CNN where they were making a case that these small
GA airports where not up to spec on security measures making it seem
like anyone can get into a plane and ram it into a building.

What prevents it?

Like you can't load a Rider truck with ammonium nitrate and
blow up a building?

You can do that, too, unfortunately.

So we are to screen everyone owning and renting
out trucks or just pick on GA?

The goal of the state is to control everything eventually.

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"Tom Conner" wrote in message
nk.net...

What this accident did is bring GA to the public's attention. The 99.9%
of
the public that does not deal with GA never really thinks about GA until
something like this happens to bring it to their attention. However, once
their attention is focused on the subject then they start to wonder why
"these little planes" can just fly whenever and wherever they want with no
restrictions.


I don't know anybody in the public---the great, mysterious "they" that we're
somehow not part of--who thinks that way.

Now that they are thinking about the subject someone is going to start
wondering what
would happen if the plane had been full of explosives and the target was
some public gathering.

Oh, really? People in New York might freak out about the possibility of
terrorists flying airplanes into things?

Gee. I wonder why.


=c

".Blueskies." wrote in message
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I like the sensational word that all were using...raining debris and fire
on the ground...flames leaping from the
windows...smoke billowing out...

Nobody reads passive voice.

"An building was struck by an airplane. There was a fire. Burning debris was
falling to the ground and there was smoke."

"Smoke billowed out" includes an active verb, whereas "there was smoke
coming out" is weak.

-c
"Nothing happened today when an airplane collided with a building in New
York City except that there was a little fire and two dead occupants." .

".Blueskies." wrote in message
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I also like the way the fire is perpetually burning on CNN. One account
said the fire was out in 20 minutes, but the
coverage showed it burning constantly. You could see the water coming out
of the windows and the white steam, and then
they would cut away and begin the loop again...

For 20 whole minutes?

-c