CBS and the airpark manager

I quit talking to media 35 years ago after a major city newspaper had it
sounding like I held a position exactly the opposite of the one I actually
did. Every quote was correct but they were edited and juxtaposed to other
text to completely contradict what I actually said. TV is even worse due to
the briefness of the pieces and the lack of journalistic ethics of too many
of the practitioners.

"David" wrote in message
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Nobody should allow themselves to be interviewed like this unless ...

Don't know about slander or defamation .. but their deliberate inaccuracy
of what he said certainly held him up to ridicule and attack in his
profession,
which would have been a forseeable result given the highly charged topic
they were presenting. The only answer of course is to NEVER allow what
you say to be used .. unless you have final say over what is presented.


"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Orval Fairbairn" wrote:
I have emailed AOPA, suggesting that they help Mr. Trissel sue
CBS for slaneder and defamation of character.

CBS indeed behaved despicably, but how did they slander or defame Mr.
Trissel?
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM
(remove pants to reply by email)

"John Gaquin" wrote in message
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message

Under the category of "suspicions confirmed," you might like to read
this piece from the Aero-News email newsletter this morning:

John Trissel: I Was Ambushed By CBS

Falls into the category of "He shoulda known better than to trust CBS."

What? Don't they call themselves "The most trusted" ...blah, blah, blah!

(IMBW; I yanked my cable connection two years ago and didn't watch network
news for long before)

"Tune2828" wrote in message
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not that they go that far - but who polices the news and gets upset when
things
are that out of context?

The internet?

"David" wrote in message
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not that they go that far - but who polices the news and gets upset when
things
are that out of context?

we do

That's who do!

"Roger Long" om wrote in
message ...
A democracy and its future depends more on the responsibility of the press
than on the integrity of its leaders. Leaders come and go and can be
changed if the public is properly informed.

We're in trouble.


Herr Gobbels will take care of it.

"Roger Long" wrote:
A democracy and its future depends more on the responsibility
of the press than on the integrity of its leaders. Leaders come
and go and can be changed if the public is properly informed.

We're in trouble.

Please don't misunderstand me: I'm not defending the behavior of today's
American news media when they behave in the cynical, careless fashion of
CBS's recent story. But when in our history has it ever been any
different? Take a look at some archives of newspapers from the late
nineteenth century, for example - awful, but we're still here.

We have a free press, which means that it will have warts on it (or, as
Donald Rumsfeld candidly remarked about freedom in general, it will be
"untidy"). It is our responsibility as free citizens to point out those
warts when we see them.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, a free press is a terrible kind of
press, but all other kinds are worse.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM
(remove pants to reply by email)

"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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|
| Under the category of "suspicions confirmed," you might like to read
| this piece from the Aero-News email newsletter this morning:
|
| John Trissel: I Was Ambushed By CBS
| Eagle's Nest Operator Says He Was "Grossly Mistreated" By
| "Tiffany Network"
|
| "I've never been so let
| down in my life."
|

I feel for him. I have been burned this way myself more than once. I thought
the behavior was exceptional until the "Wall Street Journal" ran a series of
interviews of people ambushed by the likes of Mike Wallace and Dan Rather.
Never talk to news reporters like this. They simply cannot be trusted. They
probably did not even tell Trissel that they were from CBS.

I feel for him. I have been burned this way myself more than once.

Didn't they get written permission from you to broadcast the interview?

Instead of getting burned "more than once", perhaps inform them next time in
writing they are to not use your image nor statements unless you
specifically approve the entire article exactly as it will be aired.

"John Harlow" wrote in message
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I feel for him. I have been burned this way myself more than once.

Didn't they get written permission from you to broadcast the interview?

Instead of getting burned "more than once", perhaps inform them next time
in
writing they are to not use your image nor statements unless you
specifically approve the entire article exactly as it will be aired.



At which point they will laugh and go find someone else. None of them are
going to give you approval authority.