Originally Posted by
Hot 'n' High
And, no offence to you
Diff, but sadly many of your professional colleagues in the media routinely and deliberately publish outright lies, or should I say "filtered truth", for the sake of headline grabbing! At least
7U has an excuse (he's barking!) - the media (and politicians) are just into spinning their agendas for self-promotion (and that ellusive "scoop") despite reality suggesting otherwise. I honestly can't recall when I last bothered watching the News on TV or reading a paper - we are talking many years ago now! And that that I do get to hear of I just dismiss! I find
Jet Blast keeps me reliably up to date with anything of real importance!!!
None taken, I agree. Un-researched, regurgitated, and poorly written drivel is a stain on journalism in the modern era. I wear the defence that subjects of my work use such as "rubbish journalist", etc etc as a badge of honour, because it shows I've rattled and/or exposed them. I'm only rubbish when they don't agree with my assessment!
Journalism, like commercial aviation, used to be a very well paid industry. Now it is a minimum-wage industry, and standards are sadly slipping where the number of articles banged out in a day trumps the quality of the reporting.
Back on topic - I've found it really quite intriguing that with all this Jet Airways talk over the recent months - which I must admit has been a wonderfully entertaining, but really quite tragic tale - the actual Atmosphere Intercontinental Airlines charade has seen absolutely no change, no update, no press release, no announcements, no deals, no recruitment events, no bulls**t on social media, no nothing.