Originally Posted by
Ewan Whosearmy
The real takeaway here is that The Australian is clearly staffed with lazy journalists and should, like most media outlets, not be trusted.
All the Queensland papers are quoting social media excerpts, including tributes posted on Ash’s FB page. This is the scourge of modern times but telling us not to read newspaper articles is not the point; ensuring that what we contribute has a degree of basis in fact, is. Posting comments implying that the operation was allowing
fatigue, complacency, distraction, commercial pressure and lack of radio calls by (what I believe from his post history) a retired airline pilot living locally does us no favours when they are quoted by the Press.
