Another Red Arrows mishap? (merged)
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From the DM
'The pilot's next of kin have been informed. Our thoughts and prayers are with the pilot's family and friends at this difficult time.' The pilot will be named tomorrow.
'The pilot's next of kin have been informed. Our thoughts and prayers are with the pilot's family and friends at this difficult time.' The pilot will be named tomorrow.
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Have you seen the cr@p he has written on that website, "it looks like pilot error" alright d******d how about you show him and his family some respect and not post stuff based on rumours and your supposed 'knowledge'
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500N. You are not wrong. Maybe a DM editor is getting his/her wrist slapped as we write.
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Such a terrible, tragic loss - my heart goes out to family and friends.
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The "offending" Daily Mail webpage from 22:30 lists the story as being by Ian Drury & Andy Dolan, but the revised page from 22:53 is by a Mail Reporter.
Suddenly the Daily Mail are shy about everyone's name.
Suddenly the Daily Mail are shy about everyone's name.
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if you want to make your feelings known:
Press Complaints Commission >> Making a Complaint >> How to make a complaint
i know what im off to do now....
RIP.
if you want to make your feelings known:
Press Complaints Commission >> Making a Complaint >> How to make a complaint
i know what im off to do now....
RIP.
A lot of press will be reading up on Pprune, E-Goat and other RAF military forums.
You don't want to be the person that breaks the seal, and ends up at the end of a unpleasant one-way chat.
You don't want to be the person that breaks the seal, and ends up at the end of a unpleasant one-way chat.
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Just terribly sad news and another dreadful loss to the RAF and the aviation world - RIP Sir.
Jane and I send our love and prayers to everyone involved and associated with RAFAT. You are all very much in our thoughts and prayers at this, the saddest of times.
TKR
Jane and I send our love and prayers to everyone involved and associated with RAFAT. You are all very much in our thoughts and prayers at this, the saddest of times.
TKR
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They're now naming him and showing his picture 
RIP Sir.
RIP Sir.
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Yes, just noticed that.
The DM really are muppets. Look what is in the first sentence ...... "at the stunt team’s base".
Maybe it's time the MOD enforce embargo's on the details.
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The DM really are muppets. Look what is in the first sentence ...... "at the stunt team’s base".
Maybe it's time the MOD enforce embargo's on the details.
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Extract from the "Editors Code of Practice" as published by the PCC:
*Privacy
i) Everyone is entitled to respect for his or her private and family life, home, health and correspondence, including digital communications.
ii) Editors will be expected to justify intrusions into any individual's private life without consent......
*Privacy
i) Everyone is entitled to respect for his or her private and family life, home, health and correspondence, including digital communications.
ii) Editors will be expected to justify intrusions into any individual's private life without consent......
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RIP Sir.
Before you all turn your ire on the Daily Mail, consider that another fatal accident involving the Reds was always going to attract intense media interest. The DM's business is selling papers, and no doubt some of those who are tub thumping right now have before praised the same paper for pro RAF government bashing. Also, if the DM had not got the scoop, it would have been another paper anyway.
This is especially so when the possibility remained that it may have been Flt Lt Stewart involved (dead female red = way bigger story) and that it was so soon after Bournemouth (2 stories for the price of one).
Don't get me wrong, I am as disappointed as the next man that his family had so short a period of grace before the inevitable media storm. However, the Reds are not a normal unit, their role is PR so it is inevitable that when a bad news story comes along then are going to be under the spotlight.
My question(s) about the management of information would be aimed at the Red's media ops / PR support / chain of command as (IMHO) it appears they are behind the story and possibly not equipped / trained to manage bad news. And whatever muppet has control of the Red's official website needs a foot in their backside too - nearly 24 hours post event and it's unchanged.
I think what I have written is distasteful, but it's a fact of 21st century life.
Before you all turn your ire on the Daily Mail, consider that another fatal accident involving the Reds was always going to attract intense media interest. The DM's business is selling papers, and no doubt some of those who are tub thumping right now have before praised the same paper for pro RAF government bashing. Also, if the DM had not got the scoop, it would have been another paper anyway.
This is especially so when the possibility remained that it may have been Flt Lt Stewart involved (dead female red = way bigger story) and that it was so soon after Bournemouth (2 stories for the price of one).
Don't get me wrong, I am as disappointed as the next man that his family had so short a period of grace before the inevitable media storm. However, the Reds are not a normal unit, their role is PR so it is inevitable that when a bad news story comes along then are going to be under the spotlight.
My question(s) about the management of information would be aimed at the Red's media ops / PR support / chain of command as (IMHO) it appears they are behind the story and possibly not equipped / trained to manage bad news. And whatever muppet has control of the Red's official website needs a foot in their backside too - nearly 24 hours post event and it's unchanged.
I think what I have written is distasteful, but it's a fact of 21st century life.
