So when ever a political journalist pases comment do you hear people demanding to know his political qualifications (if there is such a thing)?
The fact is that Journalists specializes in certain areas and recruit sources to feed them information without necessarily being a qualified whatever, its how I believe the industry works. Arn't we burning t he strawman here. Even if GT had an ATPL and years of experience and he said similar things you still would burn him.
the point is both print media and especially tv is geared towards sensualised soundbites.