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The BBC story you reference is very emotional and dramatic, but that is not so inappropriate, given the circumstances. One feels that the author is trying to convey an immediate and personal sense of the scene as she witnessed it. Journalists are expected to do that.
She remains relatively faithful to the facts, as they are understood at present. An exception to this is the reference to 'propeller' - probably referring incorrectly to a piece of a tubine. The article does somewhat implicate Swiss ATC, but what it reports is consistent with information from various authorities that is now generally known.
On balance, I think it is sensitive and well written for the audience to whom they cater.
The really deplorable qualities of bad journalism that specifically ARE NOT manifest in the BBC story include:
a) fabrication of facts
b) false and misleading attribution of statements
c) wildly inappropriate what-if scenarios
d) baseless accusations regarding cause or responsibility
e) deliberately misleading or confusing information
f) using a tragic circumstance as an opportunity to grind on about some marginally related agenda or concept.
g) exaggeration and hyperbole of a nature that create a clearly false impression of the actual events
h) incorporating unnecessarily precise physical detail and gore to the extent that they may cause profound revulsion and fear among the general public
Last edited by arcniz; 6th Jul 2002 at 20:10.