Media screws up again...

"OtisWinslow" wrote in message news:ZGoxc.17162721

What the media needs is integrity and a desire to tell the truth. And that
will never happen. Media reporting is about entertainment .. not truth.

To be fair, it various from source to source. Media -reporting- is about
truth. What the publishers and editors do to it to sell ads is another
issue, but it's not consistent. It's difficult to measure up to the ideal
when advertisers seem to pull support at the drop of a hat.

What might solve some of the ignorance (viz the "stall" confusion) is some
sort of informational brochure or handbook that teaches at least the very
basics of GA terminology and science, and encourages introductory or
discovery flights for reporters. In fact, if the GA community tried hard
enough, they could probably get the aerodynamic definition of a "stall"
added to the Associated Press Stylebook.

Hmm. That gives me an idea...

-Chris Gattman
[PP/SEL instrument and commercial student.
freelance writer, former magazine editor-in-chief
Bachelor of Science, Journalism]

"Sam" wrote in message
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Here's the link:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...94/detail.html

Stall = Engine stall?? Why do they always seem to screw this up??

For the same reason they screw up most topics -- they feel compelled to
comment about things of which they are completely clueless.

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"Sam" wrote in message
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Here's the link:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...94/detail.html

Stall = Engine stall?? Why do they always seem to screw this up??

For the same reason they screw up most topics -- they feel compelled to
comment about things of which they are completely clueless.

Thank heavens none of us are like that.

Stall = Engine stall?? Why do they always seem to screw this up??

For the same reason they screw up most topics -- they feel compelled to
comment about things of which they are completely clueless.

And CJ Campbell writes:

Thank heavens none of us are like that.

Every year, one post rises head and shoulders above the usual mix of
dross, old topics rehashed, and rehashed, and rehashed, and . . . good
solid keepers.

This one has my vote

Tony

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Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Almost Instrument
Cessna 172H C-GICE

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"Sam" wrote in message
om...
Here's the link:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...94/detail.html

Stall = Engine stall?? Why do they always seem to screw this up??

For the same reason they screw up most topics -- they feel compelled to
comment about things of which they are completely clueless.

Thank heavens none of us are like that.

None of us get paid BIG BUCKS for shooting our mouths off in front of
millions of people, most of whom take us as credible. None of us shooting
our mouths off is a factor in setting national policy (at least not until I
become King).

John or Martha?

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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None of us get paid BIG BUCKS for shooting our mouths off in front of
millions of people, most of whom take us as credible. None of us shooting
our mouths off is a factor in setting national policy (at least not until
I
become King).

"Earthquake McGoon" wrote in message
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John or Martha?

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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None of us get paid BIG BUCKS for shooting our mouths off in front of
millions of people, most of whom take us as credible. None of us
shooting
our mouths off is a factor in setting national policy (at least not
until
I
become King).

I go both ways!

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message news:QDGxc.70

Thank heavens none of us are like that.

None of us get paid BIG BUCKS for

When I earned my Journalism degree in 1993, "big bucks" was something like
$17,000 a year. It's about the same now. Maybe $20K.

It's interesting watching pilots trash-talking journalists for not knowing
everything and assuming that journalists make "big bucks." There's
interesting similarities. It's one of the highest-profile and most
treacherous trades, and also one of the lowest-paying.

-c

"gatt" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message news:QDGxc.70

Thank heavens none of us are like that.

None of us get paid BIG BUCKS for

When I earned my Journalism degree in 1993, "big bucks" was something like
$17,000 a year. It's about the same now. Maybe $20K.

It's interesting watching pilots trash-talking journalists for not knowing
everything

I work in Civil Engineering and when one of our people don't the answer,
they ask around to find someone who does. It's not hard, really.

and assuming that journalists make "big bucks."

Know how much the talking heads on TV make?

There's
interesting similarities. It's one of the highest-profile and most
treacherous trades,

Yeah...so many got killed last year.

and also one of the lowest-paying.

I doubt a $20K a year journalist is very influential, which is what we were
talking about.

"gatt" wrote in message
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It's interesting watching pilots trash-talking journalists for not knowing
everything


Pilots don't trash-talk journalists for for not knowing everything. Pilots
trash-talk journalists for knowing nothing about aviation yet
authoritatively saying something about aviation that is incorrect and
frequently harmful to it.



and assuming that journalists make "big bucks." There's
interesting similarities. It's one of the highest-profile and most
treacherous trades, and also one of the lowest-paying.


Because it's something that just about anyone can do.