NBC New York is trying to hijack aircraft...
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The job of ensuring airports are secure is that of the FAA and TSA. These organisations should be and presumably do auditing to ensure that proper procedures are in place.
These journalists should be prosecuted and so should NBC. But they won't coz if they were the White House wouldn't be able to get them to withhold tape of Bush looking like he didn't have a clue as one film maker found out recently.
If NBC has evidence TSA and FAA are not properly auditing aviation facilities it should show it, not go after airports in a way that they are damned if they profile suspicious characters and behaviour and damned if they don't.
These journalists should be prosecuted and so should NBC. But they won't coz if they were the White House wouldn't be able to get them to withhold tape of Bush looking like he didn't have a clue as one film maker found out recently.
If NBC has evidence TSA and FAA are not properly auditing aviation facilities it should show it, not go after airports in a way that they are damned if they profile suspicious characters and behaviour and damned if they don't.
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I've said it before. and I'll say it again. What would the concequences have been if any other journo's involved in this little escapade had been injured or killed if the situation had evolved into something that got beyond anybody's control (take the recent example of that Brit tool from the Sun that took a knife on a flight)? And I'm not just talking injury from the involvement of law enforcement.
I'm putting 10 bucks down now the media would worship them a martyrs.
I'm putting 10 bucks down now the media would worship them a martyrs.
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1. Dateline also sneaked into the cockpits of some Delta jets in Atlanta back in the mid-nineties. Got reporters hired on as contract cleaners without background checks. I actually was glad they did that - I still think the industry's weakest link is our hiring practices.
2. There are at least three professional pilots from major airlines that have lost their jobs over flip remarks made to screeners. We've all heard the "what are you worried about my hat for? I could crash the plane if I wanted to" story. That guy is now a greeter at WalMart or something. Hard to believe these guys are gonna skate away from this.
3. A New York Italian can't do ANYTHING anonymously south of about Virginia.
4. The very best part of the story is: the hero is named Arlene. All the money we spend, and we're saved by Arlene. The terrorist war will be won by the Arlenes and Bubbas of this world.
2. There are at least three professional pilots from major airlines that have lost their jobs over flip remarks made to screeners. We've all heard the "what are you worried about my hat for? I could crash the plane if I wanted to" story. That guy is now a greeter at WalMart or something. Hard to believe these guys are gonna skate away from this.
3. A New York Italian can't do ANYTHING anonymously south of about Virginia.
4. The very best part of the story is: the hero is named Arlene. All the money we spend, and we're saved by Arlene. The terrorist war will be won by the Arlenes and Bubbas of this world.
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D2A,
I'd agree with you completely if the said NBC news team subsequently ran a story on how they were "caught", continuing with the positive changes for Joe Public (certainly ALL crewmembers using/transiting TSA controlled areas are aware of the negatives) implemented throughout the aviation system in the US but, alas, I'm not holding my breath for such a story.
TV News producers are well aware that every-day stories of normality and professionalism prevent them from spinning the 'hook' the Corporations, who pay dearly to advertise during the 6 o'clock infotainment that's passed off nowadays for "News", so desire.
Having been raised in an environment where if Richard Baker, Kenneth Kendall, Walter Kronkite (or even dear old Reggie Bosanquet) et al said it, it was likely true, I find it deeply offensive that this so-called journalism knows no bounds of responsibility regarding sensationalism.
There I was..."upside down and on fire...." (only kidding).
DD
I'd agree with you completely if the said NBC news team subsequently ran a story on how they were "caught", continuing with the positive changes for Joe Public (certainly ALL crewmembers using/transiting TSA controlled areas are aware of the negatives) implemented throughout the aviation system in the US but, alas, I'm not holding my breath for such a story.
TV News producers are well aware that every-day stories of normality and professionalism prevent them from spinning the 'hook' the Corporations, who pay dearly to advertise during the 6 o'clock infotainment that's passed off nowadays for "News", so desire.
Having been raised in an environment where if Richard Baker, Kenneth Kendall, Walter Kronkite (or even dear old Reggie Bosanquet) et al said it, it was likely true, I find it deeply offensive that this so-called journalism knows no bounds of responsibility regarding sensationalism.
There I was..."upside down and on fire...." (only kidding).
DD
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Roy Hudd said: "Most terrorists in fact have been from the Middle East in the last few years. fact.".
I could be wrong, but I think that most terror acts in the USA in the last 15 years have been carried out by Americans.
Most acts in the UK in the same period have been carried out by Northern Irish.
Most acts in the same period in France & Spain have been carried out by Basques.
I could be wrong, but I think that most terror acts in the USA in the last 15 years have been carried out by Americans.
Most acts in the UK in the same period have been carried out by Northern Irish.
Most acts in the same period in France & Spain have been carried out by Basques.
