But the blatant dishonesty to keep the punters quiet is a pretty low act.
I have never, ever come across a Captain that has lied to the passengers to 'keep them quiet'. I've had times where we've been fed incorrect information by the people on the other end of the radio and we've relayed that only to find out it was incorrect but that is a very different thing to stating that crew would be complicit in lying to our passengers.