On a more general note...
The "air correspondent" is extinct in the mass media. It was an important specialist field between the 1930s and 1960s, when aviation was changing the way we travelled and fought wars, there were dozens of companies pitching hundreds of new designs, and airliners crashed with monotonous regularity. Today there just isn't enough aviation news to justify it, and what is there, is mostly business news.
The business or political reporters who cover the subject now vary in their knowledge and enthusiasm - there are some good practitioners in major aerospace cities - but seldom have any technical depth. You're going to find that in the aerospace media.
I have also worked with many people who trained as pilots and engineers and then went into aerospace journalism. Let's just say that's not the miracle cure for bad reporting.
Last edited by LowObservable; 22nd Aug 2011 at 18:07.