Prejudiced Reporting
Gwyn wrote: However, if you think reporting on aviation is poor, try listening to any stories about science, where a bunch of arts or humanities graduates can't understand basic scientific facts and go off on totally the wrong tack.
I was an engineer with the European Space Agency (ESA) for 25 years and the rubbish written in the British press about ESA was unbelievable. The same was NOT so true of the German and French press. When one sees the utter nonsense printed about the 5% one knows about, it doesn't do much confidence for the other 95%.
One additional problem is that the British resent anyone who makes a success of a business - they would be happier if we were all failures - so O'Leary is a natural target for the media. Again, ESA successes were hardly given a mention by BBC, ITV, etc., but the rare launch failure was alwys a major headline.
RaF (No connection with Ryanair - but we use the airline a lot)