Marty Shapiro wrote:

There was an newscaster in the Bay area many years ago who read an
report about a GA incident on the air. This report contained several
factual errors about the incident, among which was the picture of a twin
for the single engine aircraft involved. The irony was he was a well known
local pilot. About a week later, he MCed an all day safety seminar. The
first question asked of him was about the factual errors in his report.
His response was "I receive a 7 figure salary for reading the news that is
handed to me by the editors. If they give me advance copy and I notice an
error, I'll point it out to them, but when I'm on the air, I am not going
to jeapordize my salary by altering what they hand me."


That's fine, but from that point I'd assume he knows no better and lacks
credibility. If they handed him as report stating the earth was flat, he'd read
it that way. How can you believe a word out of his mouth when the truth has
such little importance?

I remember many years ago when 20-20 did a hatchet job on an industry I was
intimately familiar with. They neglected to report that the behaviors one
organization (the target of the report) followed were the STANDARDS OF THE
INDUSTRY. In other words, they had no story unless they wanted to castigate the
entire industry. I forever assumed if they did that to something I knew, they
did it to everybody they reported on. I never watched another show as I assume
they're all hatchet jobs.

No credibility = no viewers



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com