ZZZZ EAA SportPilot promotes ANN and Zoom

"Richard Isakson" wrote in message
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"Ken Finney" wrote ...

"Richard Isakson" wrote ...
Knowing Jim's previous problems with the truth, how can you believe
*anything* that's written in ANN?

Unless he is altering the audio files in the interviews...

Ken,

Most of what you find on ANN is merely company press releases that have
been
cut and pasted onto the website. If you went to the individual company
websites you would find that story and others there for the reading. I
suppose that's too much trouble so you let Jim decide which press releases
you read. Of course, you won't find negative articles about major
sponsors
but you will find falsified "news" about companies that refuse to play
Jim's
games. Part of the entertainment?

From time to time Jim will publish a flight review of an airplane. What
in
Jim's background makes you think he's qualified to judge airplane flight
characteristics? Or do you care? It's better to just let Jim form your
opinion? Or is it all entertainment?


As a newcomer to GA (and not yet a pilot), I look for information
everywhere. I truly believe there is no such thing as objectivity, that
every report to subjective to a point. You are right, ANN does decide what
to put on their website, and if I had the time, that I could surf looking
for press releases. Did you ever notice that magazines tend to publish a
review of a product, and within a page or two is an ad for that product?
Not random chance. The new Avweb look is dreadful, generalaviationnew never
updates much, ultraflightradio isn't bad, but the other sites I frequent are
even worse. ANN at least puts a lot of effort into their podcasts, I'll
concede that they are subjective, but I find it easier to listen to
something that is subjective than it is to listen to something that isn't
there in the first place.