As much as p-one-sses us off to see drivel in print about all things Aviation, Wiley’s got a point. The Tabloid journo’s job is to sell papers, certainly not to provide ‘hard’, accurate news – at least since the likes of Rupert, Maxwell and way back as far as Randolph Hearst got their grubby mitts into the “news”paper business.
As for a particular newspaper always providing its own ‘slant’ on a news item, y’all oughta see the ‘unbiased, disinterested, give-both-sides-of-the-argument’ reporting on a certain crisis just East of Amman in my local paper over here in the Sandpit – (which I suppose provides a balance to CNN’s ‘unbiased, disinterested, give-both-sides-of-the-argument’ (!) reporting from the opposite perspective).
Oh, and I enjoyed your ‘training package’, Rongotai. A bit too close to the bone.