'AIRCRASH' Channel Four
I am just watching this load of **** on channel four at the moment. At a time when the airline industry is reeling from decreased passenger numbers and a general increase in the fear of flying this is a hugely inappropriate programme to be showing.
As wannabees we should all be concerned at the absolute rubbish that the media is churning out these days. The newspapers and television time and time again write or show articles that put the fear of god into travellers. Just last week when the man was found with a hand granade in his HOLD luggage the headline in big bold letters read : 'Passenger Jet Moments Away From Disaster'. Today in the Daily Mail the centre pages were imblazened with 'Now More Likely To Die In An Aircrash Than In A Car'. Considering 3600 people die in car crashes in the UK every year I don't know how they can make this claim.
This is easy, cheap and sensationalist journalism that is playing on peoples fears. The more scared people are, the less they fly and there for the fewer jobs available for all of us. Any suggestions on how to stop this rubbish consistantly being published?