Bad attitude, reason for
"I spend my life in front of the TV News from USA, Europe, Asia and South America. BBC, CNN, TV-5, Deutsche Welle, TVE, RAI, NHK in English, TV-Globo, you name it... I read financial newspapers in English, Spanish and French..." Most of the media hacks wouldn't know good news if it bit them on the end of their tender nose. Looking at Google News (compendium of headlines) - Oil is up, oil is down, oil unchanged - same day. Hostages freed, hostages dead, hostages location unknown - also same day. Look at the way they report aircraft incidents "lost 20,000 feet in three seconds! We're all gonna DIE!!", they have NO idea what they are talking about. Why should the quality of their economics reporting or their political reporting be any better? It is the job of the media to GET CIRCULATION so they can justify high ad rates, accuracy in reporting is a casualty of commerce here. And we don't even want to start talking about media bias in politics (all the news that fits we print) . . . I find my attitude is MUCH better when I mostly ignore the news, most of it is incorrectly reported, biased, or just plain wrong. According to them, the world has been going to end time and time again, yet somehow it has not. If you are stuck spending your free time (layovers, etc.) watching CNN, I can certainly understand your unhappiness. The milk from the glass tit is sour in the extreme. The very last people I would let influence my actions and decisions are the media - they quite simply have no idea what they are endlessly talking about. If someone is just starting out in aviation, I say go for it - there's a significant chance you'll be successful, remember you won't have competition from the people who pay close attention to the media - they are all fearfully hiding under their beds. When it is in the history books, you can start to pay attention to it - the daily news is primarily panicked arm-waving and shouting, much ado about nothing. Best Regards, Echo Mike