will it sell papers ?
Unfortunatly the real news that 99.999% of aircrew are drink and drug free when working is not the news that is worth printing , in national paper terms it just wont sell papers.
So if anyone is hoping for fair and balanced treatment from the press just forget it.
On PPrune last week it was stated that at least one of the BA crew who had been tested in Oslo was not guilty of having had to much alcohol in his blood and at the levels that these tests are set at means that his blood/alcohol level was practicly NIL.
This did not stop one of the UK tabloid newspapers refering to the fact that this man had been stopped from flying for a drink related test AFTER the test had proved negitive !.
I would hope that the man involved has a case in court because the paper has used mis-information to blacken this mans name after he had been found to test negative for alcohol , the leagal experts on this forum may like to comment on this.