The number of poor laymen´s comments and unprofessional and/or unfounded, merely speculative posts in this thread seems to have reached a new all-time high at PPRuNe. The constant quoting of equally ill-informed media sources does not help either...
I agree - but since PPRuNe has become a parody of itself, it's now subject to the same criticism which the media have had to (often unfairly) put up with from certain contributors to this forum.
Personally I'm not disappointed - this forum long ago became just a playground for immature schoolboy comments from people who simply spout generalised anti-media and anti-journalistic venom with the sort of unfounded, biased and ill-informed fundamentalism which wouldn't look out of place coming from certain radical clerics.
The more that PPRuNe's genuine, fair and reasonable contributors become engulfed and swamped by the speculative rantings of those who just want to slag off other professionals, the more likely it is that readers will turn away from PPRuNe and towards the aviation press in order to find authoritative, non-sensational information - without the amateurish cr@p.