"Paul Sengupta" wrote in message
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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The point is that pushing the safety issue as justification for
putting
these videos on a public site is a known tool for those who wish to
show
crash videos simply for their entertainment value.

One question. Is "entertainment" the same as "interest"?

A crash, particularly at an airshow, is reported widely. People will
be
interested in seeing the pictures as well as reading about it and
about
what happened. You could say that this is what television news is all
about as opposed to perhaps radio news. Isn't it human nature to want
to see pictures and/or video of something to try and understand it
better,
even if for interest's sake?

Paul

I believe you can make a case for at least some parity between interest
and entertainment, as human nature really doesn't differentiate the
motives that dictate why some people find something like a crash video
either entertaining or interesting or both.
You can most certainly be both interested and entertained at the same
time, but I think the subtle difference I would make here when dealing
with the specific issue of crash video in discussing it's presentation
and the motivation for those who might be viewing it is that when the
average person, even a GA pilot not involved in the scenario being
depicted by a crash video, (say the Thunderbird Viper crash of Chris
Stricklin) watches that video, they can be either interested, or be
entertained, or both.
When someone directly involved with a crash investigation is watching a
crash video, they are extremely interested, but by no stretch of the
imagination being entertained.
There is of course a possibility that someone researching a crash could
find a video entertaining, but FWIW, I haven't met someone like that in
fifty years of associated safety work with the air show community.
There is a subtle difference between the two environments that is
notable.
I also think that it's right to state that everyone has a right to their
own reasons for either supplying or viewing these videos. It's just that
my own reasons for viewing them have always been as a professional
consultant, so I'm not in the "entertainment" side of the equation, but
am deeply involved in the "interested" side of things.
The folks on the "entertainment" side of things are simply not my cup of
tea. I won't go out of my way to confront them unless provoked , but I
will avoid them as friends or Usenet acquaintances because as an ex
demonstration pilot myself, I find them shall we say....not necessarily
my kind of people :-)
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Flight Instructor/Aerobatics/Retired

Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Flight Instructor/Aerobatics/Retired