The media will do as the media does. Reporters hoping for their 30 seconds of fame while chasing the coat tails of a previous aviation article that was actually worth the paper it was written on. Qantas is hot media property right now!
Happens here also. Air NZ gets in the news for one reason or another and subsequently we get bombarded with daily "breaking news" relating to them. The last such tripe was an article quoting a plane spotter at the airport who reported a go around at AKL to the NZ Herald.
Today's journalists are mostly nothing more than bloggers reaching a wider audience. They don't even spell check let alone fact check. I recall a recent article about Boeings 777 Dreamliner
and let's forget the Piper Cessna... Or perhaps it was the Cessna Piper
