Media---First let me say there are excellent journalists---Ted Koppel, the late Tim Russert---Jim Lehrer----now, I've noticed that in most other topics journalists tend to refrain from mindless speculation---i.e medicine they'll quote a physician, or science they'll quote a scientist and use accurate simple language---like a piece I read on steam explosions in NYC---[and I know a thing or two about steam
]---very accurate!!!
Now, in comes aviation---then all hell breaks loose
examples include:
use of incorrect airport terminology Taxiways for runways Ramp/tarmac for Taxiways, and of course plenty of fear evoking terms--, " near fatal plunge" "seconds from disaster" "plummet", "Fuselage separated", "wing departed" etc...again... not all -----Chuck Scarborough--- does a great job but he's an experienced pilot
So if you don't want a bad reputation don't
up!!!
Also, How does an 'journo' truly understand the tech stuff on PpruNe...unless your reading some of the Wiki
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or MS test pilots---if you're not as pilot or an engineer---and you say you can interpret the
{xpurts} on Pprune ---To that----I must say B***
Edited to add: many second and third graders can do a much better job of researching topics than supposedly college educated
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Lester
