PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - ezy full emergency at EDI
View Single Post
Old 15th Mar 2002, 21:53
  #12 (permalink)  
ajamieson
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: EDI, LHR, NQY
Posts: 403
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Thumbs down

OK, I normally ignore it when posters rip into journalists on here because it is usually entirely justified. But guys, please.... .. .This article is over-written tosh.. .. .That said, someone suggested the phrase "thought to have come from Luton" implied the reporter had been too lazy to check facts. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="mad.gif" /> This incident happened late at night and the newspaper's first edition deadline is 9am. The airline's out-of-hours press office did not return the reporter's calls to ask whether it was a LGW, LTN, AMS or BFS flight and the BAA press office had very little information. The story was updated (but sadly not rewritten) for later editions.. .. .It was actually a member of aircrew who contacted the newspaper with the story in the first place, so let's have a little less stone-throwing about professional integrity, please. FWIW, I don't think aircrew should speak to journalists, either.. .. .It is also worth bearing in mind that if reporters wrote stories in the matter-of-fact, technically-worded language of the log book, no-one would ever buy newspapers in the first place.. .. . <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="smile.gif" />
ajamieson is offline