It was a typical editorial comment feigned in a statement of fact. Of
course everyone knows that airplanes take off and land on the runway. But
by dedicating a whole paragraph to that fact, he heightens the drama of the
story, as if to say millions of people could have been killed if airplanes
were taking off and landing when the idiot drove across it.

The key to excellence in journalism is to draw the most emotion out of
people by organizing facts into the most dramatic set of bull**** as
possible.



Skywise wrote in news:11ccfgb7oli4ob0
@corp.supernews.com:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/30/air...ase/index.html

Journalists must think people are really REALLY stupid,
or perhaps just as stupid as they are. I was reading the
CNN article on the guy that got onto the Sky Harbor Airport
while fleeing from police and ran across this one liner,

"The runway is the strip on which aircraft
can take off and land."

I'm sorry, but about the only people who can be forgiven
for not knowing that are akin to some isolated tribe in
the Amazon that's never seen an airplane before.

And to think I get jumped on when I say journalists are
stupid. Not all, but the majority certainly end up looking
that way form what they write.

Brian