Media screws up again...

"Sam" ha scritto nel messaggio
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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??


Quote: "The landing gear was down, the propeller was turning. It doesn't
make a lot of sense to me why he was making an emergency landing, whoever
was flying," McKenna said.


Well... wasn't it so that during an engine failure the prop doesn't always
stop turning? ...

-Manuel
PPL(A) SEP

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"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.

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).

"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]

"BTIZ" wrote in message news:z6pxc.5042

what the media needs is educated people... a degree in journalism means
they
learn how to write and keep the readers attention... it does not mean they
know what they are writing about.

BINGO! This is the most accurate assessment of the media I've heard in a
long time.

In fact, I have a degree in journalism with a science minor BECAUSE of this.
The head of the OSU college of journalism (two-time Pulitzer winner Jon
Franklin) required all students to earn science or technical minors because,
he said, of the urgent need for science-minded journalists.

To be fair, they learn about ethics, law, media history and our taught
RIGIDLY to report accurately to the best of their ability. (You would fail
a final exam, for example, by a single misspelling of a name.) It's
journalists such as those you describe who are responsible for the regular
rounds of killer bee scares, bigfoot and UFO stories, the Alar scare, comets
coming to kill us...

-c

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message news:KAsxc.352$

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.

Yes. It's their job. Reporters are generally expected to know everything.
The expectation comes from those who believe that they themselves already
do.

-c

"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

"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!

"gatt" wrote in message
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Yes. It's their job. Reporters are generally expected to know everything.


Really? By whom?



The expectation comes from those who believe that they themselves already
do.


Hmmm..... Why would such people pay any attention to reporters?

"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.