Formation flight panicks Bostonians

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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Geeze. I can understand why the guy who said "so I can become a crazy
person and call them four times a day and demand an explanation"
didn't want to be identified. He **IS** a crazy person.

I'm trying to figure out which is worse: a crazy person (or 50) who panic
when they see some planes, or a newspaper (The Boston Globe) who reports
on
the event and quotes one of the crazy people as if they had a point.

Jeppesen's Guided Flight Discovery Flight Instructor book has a point: have
you ever read a news article about a small airplane that took off, flew
somewhere without incident, and landed safely at its destination?

Of course not, because that is not news. The fact is that people are
voyeurs. They like to read about bad news. The news media like to use this
to manipulate public opinion -- blaming all the bad news on Republicans, for
example. But it is hardly their fault that there is something very morbid in
human nature.