CBS NEWS - An Idea

Maule Driver wrote:

I try to remember that whenver a plane crash is reported. No matter the
details reported, all I can reasonably assume is that a plane crashed.

And always remember that if it happened frequently, it wouldn't be news and they'd
never report it.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

Been there, done that, and ate the left overs a couple of days ago!!!! And
we even got the courtesy car :-). I've eaten a lot of BBQ and some of it
really good. But I must say, it has been a LOOOONNNNNGGGGGG time since I had
any as good as Cooper's.

Not only that but I really enjoyed our short stay at 6R9. Met Rick, the
airport manager; a really nice guy.

Harry

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Harry, PP-ASEL
San Antonio, TX (we have some great BBQ here)


you ought to fly up to 6R9 and take the courtesy car out to coopers, thats
some good bbq

now if only the weather here in austin would clear up...

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:30:18 GMT "Harry Gordon" wrote:

If someone else has already made this suggestion, I apologize.

CBS apparently takes great pride in raising the fear in the hearts of
Americans. Lately that fear has been focused on the GA news item, which I
didn't see because I don't watch CBS news.

I began thinking that the reason this "grab your socks, the world's coming
to an end" news item on GA may not be because of the threat GA poses, but
rather because GA is not a sponsor of CBS News. Truck rental companies are
or certainly have the potential of becoming a sponsor and surely, a network
news team wouldn't "blast" their sponsor, would they?


It's a lot simpler than all that. Just stop watching CBS.
I watch very little TV and life's better without it. Most of
it has nothing to do with my life or with anything that's very
interesting.

It is certainly ironic that the centennial of flight was just celebrated
and CBS is now bashing GA, where it all began.

R. Hubbell


So, how about AOPA and the Be A Pilot organization buy some advertising time
during the CBS News show and talk/show how great GA really is?

Having just taken great pride in slamming GA, I wonder what the CBS News
management team would think as they watched, and knew America was watching,
a family enjoying a flight through the open skies over the Rockies or the
wheat lands or maybe even showing the joy in landing at a GA airport that
has a great BBQ place close by....

Just an idea.

:-)

Harry, PP-ASEL
San Antonio, TX (we have some great BBQ here)

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Maule Driver wrote:

I try to remember that whenver a plane crash is reported. No matter the
details reported, all I can reasonably assume is that a plane crashed.

And always remember that if it happened frequently, it wouldn't be news
and they'd
never report it.

A few weeks ago there was a fatal car accident at the intersection near my
house. Two people killed, intersection tied up for four hours, Med-evac
flight....

Didn't receive even a single word of mention in the newspaper.

OTOH, every "special interest" (read: hype for another government program)
story....

Harry Gordon wrote:

So, how about AOPA and the Be A Pilot organization buy some advertising time
during the CBS News show and talk/show how great GA really is?

Feed the hand that bites, eh?

David H
Boeing Field (BFI), Seattle, WA
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"Dave Stadt"

I try to remember that whenver a plane crash is reported. No matter the
details reported, all I can reasonably assume is that a plane crashed.

Can't even assume that as they consider someone landing without scratching
the plane after an engine out to be a crash.

You're right. Maybe only that a plane came down somewhere 'unintended' and
'unexpected'...maybe not even that.