"El Maximo" wrote in message
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Unfortunately, journalists cannot be specialists in everything, so they
often get all sorts of things wrong.

Are you a journalist?

I'm a former journalist with a degree in technical journalism. There is no
part of the curriculum or stylebook pertaining to aviation and at no point
does somebody come up to a student journalist or young reporter and say
"Look, you guys. It's called an engine failure. Not an engine stall..."

Almost all journalists use the Associated Press Stylebook or something
equivalent. Perhaps there's a need for an technological addition to the
stylebook, or a journalist's quick reference guide. It could include
nautical and aeronautical terms and concepts for aviation, boating and other
transportation--(is it "semi" "big-rig", "eighteen-wheeler",
"tractor-trailor"....) etc. That might fix a lot of things.

-c
Hmmm...what might a commercial pilot with a journalism degree do to help
rectify this situation?