The "Mass Media" versus "The Truth"?
I agree with wallabie. Even in everyday political or current events news, the media leaves out so much information-obvious information which should be answered - when they present their so-called "news" that it would be a waste of everyone's time to assume that all the "hoopla" we are hearing from the "news" is either accurate or complete.
These "journalists", whose jobs are supposed to present as complete a picture of the facts as possible, without speculation on complete unknowns like we are facing at this stage of the Air France crash, basically just do this to make money and hardly ever inform anyone of anything. Even these "news analyses" or "detailed" reports are a farce.
So, such a technical and precise matter as an A340 crash is completely beyond the mass media's ability to report or, for that matter, comprehend, without any bias or accuracy in my opinion.
Let's just wait for the true professionals to examine the black boxes and other physical evidence and report back before speculating on open and closed doors, shall we? At least with them, even if they may have their own imperfections, we can be MORE sure of the facts than any jibberish reported by the media.
John