Oscar Wilde wrote,
"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, (journalism) keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community".
I bought The Sun today and I don't think anyone in the journalistic world has a goddamn clue. On the same page they have Paul Crosbie reporting on the incident in a more or less acceptable fashion citing comparisons to the privatisation of the rail network and the lessons not learned with regards to privatisation. THEN there's this !!!! George Pascoe-Watson, a political editor laying out the benefits of privatisation. Their argument being that the money from the sale will be spent on modernisation. What a load of old b*ll*cks. I know what the money will be spent on. It'll be spent on asylum seekers and benefit fraudsters just like our road and fuel tax!
They quote people like Iain Findlay and David Learmont (Flight International safety editor) or mis-quote, I don't know which. If they said what they were quoted as saying then they haven't helped matters much. I suspect that they have been selectively quoted which is a common journalistic strategy.
I also would like to pass on my best wishes to those concerned and if you ask me, I think you all do a sterling job...in the UK especially!
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Very funny, Scotty. Now beam up my clothes!