I don't really understand the point of these sorts of stories. The report, as broadcast, was completely vacuous and does nothing for the US Air Force beyond showing them to have cool fast jets. In fact, if anything it damages their positive face needs.
As broadcast, there was seemingly no *reason* for the piece, no intelligent comment about the importance of the 48th FW being based here, and no mention of how the Wing benefits the local community - you know, the sort of stuff you'd want to hear on a local news programme. In fact, you could have taken any particular angle and it still would have been better than the asinine commentary we got (which, incidentally, has been done a million times before and so cannot even claim to be original).
You need only look at this thread to see that the focus of the comments are about whether the pilot was an idiot, because, well, there's not much else about the piece that you *can* talk about.
What a waste.