WHERE'S THE INDUSTRY'S VOICE?
Why, oh why, don't you highly intelligent, skilled people that command so much respect, admiration (and personally speaking, envy,) for the job you do, appreciate that, in the eyes of the media, you have allowed yourselves to become a sitting target for stories that boost circulation figures. One of your own - and I am referring to the BA Oslo incident in this case - gets hung out to fry and then dry, but nowhere, either pre- or post-judgement, is the alternative to the 'guilty, guilty, drunk, drunk' media hype put forward in a professionally presented and argued way. You're letting the media set the agenda - which will always be the sensationalist, and which will only get worse - and until BALPA or PPRuNe or whoever, gets real to the need to put together a media relations function that is prepared to put forward reasoned arguments in support of aviation issues, then you're simply giving the media an open, unopposed field which will always result in bloody defeat. If the media - particularly here in the UK - had their way, they'd destroy companies and industries in the interests of sensationaism, journalists' egos and media magnates' bank balances. For goodness sake, get together and work out a way of protecting your reputations as an industry rather than having to vent your spleens on forums such as this!