BBC lies about 1900 crash !

[V1 Rotate]

I have just watched the BBC World news report on the unfortunate 1900 crash in the US. The BBC correspondent, a "Katty Kay" reporting from Washington described the incident "as a frequent problem" and said that "there is a lot of trouble with this type of aircraft".
I watched this "news" item absolutly agast. How can journalists lie so blatantly with a straight face?
They then went on to debate the merits of gounding all such aircraft!
I then turned over to CNN to hear a much more balanced and factual account of the accident.
Let us pray for the unfortunate victims and their families and hope that the NTSB come to a speedy conclusion so as to avert this happening again.
Any 1900 jocks out there see the same broadcast?
V1 Rotate

[laidbak]

This type of reporting is SOP- even worse at local (parochial) levels, viz small town newspapers, 'eyewitness TV news and so on.
Recently here there was a fatal SE Turbine ac crash(Malibu or Mirage maybe). Immediately, local reporters, tv and print, reported Piper ac as being problematic (I assume they pulled accident/incident stats from public databases like AOPA, NTSB etc.)
Very few media organisations are interested in balanced, accurate reporting, particularly commercial ones, but in this case the Beeb stepped on it's d**k. Objectivity does not sell- sensationalism does. Public only has itself to blame (generalisation)- viz 'National Enquirer', 'The Sun' et al.
Don Henley had it right in his paean to the media- 'Dirty Laundry'(Can we film the operation.. Is the head dead yet ?....). Media types know they can get away with this type of fatuous speculation as it's only a small segment of their viewers/readers who know any better. This is not to say they shouldn't be called on it.

[lostcomm]

I saw the same thing on BBC world. It was horrible.That is lowest form of jurnalism. Waiting for tragedy to happen, then blow everything out of proportions. Sad bud unfortunatly quite common these days.
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[ratsarrse]

I expect better from the BBC. Overall, they maintain pretty good standards and I think it helps that they are publicly funded and not beholden to commercial considerations. There has been a trend lately to recruit some of the younger reporters from local TV news stations for the 24 hour news channels and the lack of experience shows at times. I reckon this might be an example.

Edit:
Having taken a look at the bbc website, they are linking to the Aviation Safety Network website. These are the stats they are most likely looking at:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/list.php?field=typecode&var=090%&sorteer=datekey&kind=A&cat=acc&page=1