Idiotic News Reporters

"Owen" wrote in message ...
: ".Blueskies." wrote:
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: "Ron Snipes" wrote in message .. .
: : After hearing all the speculation on the news today regarding the aircraft
: : that hit the building in NY, I was watching the press conference Mayor
: : Bloomburg was doing around 5:30pm. Some female reporter asked if the Flight
: : Data Recorder had been found yet? (I'm not bashing female reporters!)
: :
: : Mayor Bloomburg handled it professionally, and stated that an airplane of
: : that size would not have a flight data recorder.
: :
: : They are all trying to get on the air First...who cares if the info was
: : bogus. First it was supposed to be a helicopter.
: :
: : I have spent 25 years in TV at local stations and a Video & Film Production
: : Company, so I'm aware of the problem.
: : Ron
: :
: :
:
: I like the sensational word that all were using...raining debris and fire on the ground...flames leaping from the
: windows...smoke billowing out...
:
: 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?

No, and that is the point. Something like the plane fell to the ground after hitting the building...the apartment was
burning...

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...

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

".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

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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".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." .

"gatt" wrote in message ...
:
:: "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." .
:
:

I do like that one...nothing happening here, move along....