Are there any journalists who get their aviation details correct?
A few, but they are of course in the huge minority.
I know about
a dozen who never make any errors and who always check to the
nth degree even under pressure:
one highly-acclaimed gentleman from Northern Ireland who works in Wa (the only West Coast aerospace commentator of
any description who knows the industry), a
couple of true aerospace specialists in Va,
three or
four on the East Coast,
one seriously talented young French lady in London,
a sharp-as-can-be Frenchman, also in London (there are NO competent or objective French aerospace journalists in France itself due to heavy pro-Airbus bias but there are
two or
three excellent US female journos in Paris), plus a
couple of conscientious people in the Far East.
You can always tell a good journalist by the questions he or she asks, not just by the articles he or she writes.