Ah, The Air Show on BBC, back in the days when BA fully funded trainees on it's TEP programme. From what I recall, the quality of the content on that show was fairly decent.
Regarding the paper and a coffee, the thing is a lot of "dream" jobs do eventually become just a job. I had two "dream" careers I was applying for, one was flying for the airlines, the other was elsewhere. At the moment, I'm doing the latter as a trainee and whilst I do enjoy it most of the time, there is more to life than work itself.
I think the blogs can be very useful when it comes to understanding the process, including selection, financing and the actual training itself. However, the "dream" side of things can be wearisome, particularly when training providers and airlines use it to sell "opportunities" with poor T&Cs.
FTE do seem to be fairly strong at the moment though I must say I do see Kura and Wings Alliance having given modular a bit of a boost.