Regarding Pat Malone's comments:
What makes it worse is the current attitude of most pilots who refuse to believe that there are some good journos out there who do try to get the story right.
For example: Everyone seems prepared to knock David Learmont who at least tries to tell things how they are, and yet they refuse to help the press in any way themselves.
I've been reported on by both types of journalist: The ones who create a situation that verges on lies and the others who report so accurately that I subsequently carried their name with me in case I ever had a really big story to tell.
...The problem is in telling one from the other at first contact: Why don't we start a Pprune award for the ones that at least try? Or perhaps we could publish their names so that the profession could reward those who give us a fair crack of the whip.