Originally Posted by
VHOED191006
We all have one common goal: to reassure the public that flying is safe. Unfortunately, those effects are being diminished by the constant circus show and tomfoolery that the media displays. Perhaps we should all start a movement, directed at the media, to do a similar act of what the French did to their royal family!
I read an article a while back (can't remember where unfortunately) and it was titled something like "What the media gets wrong about aviation".
It went into quite a bit of depth, even criticizing the use of the term 'tarmac' for everything not grass at an airport. Of course, the majority of major airports have concrete runways, taxiways and aprons and tarmac is a road surface material.
Perhaps someone should set up a website, a la 'Media Watch' that highlights errors in the media v.v. aviation.
Lots of material. If anyone has time, look at the occasional article (space filler) in Traveler and other newspaper travel sections that occasionally rehash articles about various aspects of aviation. Not one of them seems to have even the benefit of looking at wikipedia, let alone even bothering to do a nanosecond of research, with very, very basic errors.