Matt Whiting wrote:
Gig601XLBuilder wrote:
Matt Whiting wrote:
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

I tend to agree with you on this but he said, "I receive a 7 figure
salary for reading the news that is handed to me by the editors." That
makes him an announcer not a journalist. So in my opinion he is no
different than an actor on some TV show or movie that reads lines.

You make a good point, but I don't think the general public makes a
distinction between announcer and journalist and I don't much either.
The person on the tube is the "face of journalism" to me and I haven't
been addressed since Cronkite and his generation retired.

That was supposed to be impressed, not addressed! I don't know where
that came from...

Matt