Marty Shapiro wrote:
Denny wrote in news:7e60896b-29ad-4df9-b10e-
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We can snicker all we want at the clueless reporting of a liberal arts
major, low man on the totem pole, who gets sent to report on general
aviation - but how many of us have contacted the paqper and the tv
station and offered to take the general news reporter(s) flying on a
saturday afternoon so we can teach them the basics?

denny hand up


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 last statement also pretty much sums of my impression of
journalistic integrity.

Matt