Time Magazine Article "What's causing ATC delays"

"Gattman" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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But if CFI's applied the same measure of diligence that reporters seem to,
every plane ever built would be a smoldering hulk long ago.

Conversely, if CFIs were expected to fly a new type of aircraft with very
little training time or instruction every day, the result would be the
same.

Amazing that they can come out of college so poory stood in the world in
general. The CFI analogy would be if every day they flew one of several
172's, 152's, and a handful of 182s.

It's definately hard to talk transporation one day, medicine the next,
crime/politics/science, etc.

Yet they do. And they attempt to come off as experts. If a crime happens,
you get your crime reporter; if it's a disaster, you get someone who has
been to a few.

Using your analogy, CFI's would have 15 hours total time.

As for your OSU professor, did he ever teach rules for objective
reporting?

They all did, some more effectively than others. In terms of accuracy,
they'd fail you for misspelling a name (for example) regarldess of how
well the article was written otherwise.

Slight innaccuracies are not a facet of being objective. Maybe that's the
problem, they were too worried about writing style, and not about how well
they observed something going on and were able to tell the story without
getting their ass into it. This observe/note/report sequence is basic
training in a lot of other fields; why can't reporters do it?



However, it's important to note that publishers aren't necessarily former
journalists or journalism graduates, and they basically get to decide what
to publish and if/whether there will be any particular spin.

Agreed. As for publishers, not always, but mostly they are journalists, are
they not?

It's to wonder when they transitioned from "reporter" to "propagandist". To
do so is, to me, worse than prostituting oneself.



It's quite a bit like the music industry, where the artists is working for
the company and gets told what to write, with whom to record, etc. (I
know of a Portland musician who got a major L.A. contract and was told she
needed to get braces and breast implants, so she's back to the coffee shop
circuit.)

Not Faith Hill? Please tell me it wasn't her!!



It's up to the journalist's own ethical standards to determine whether to
write for such a publication. At a job interview for a news editor
position in 1995 I told the interviewer that I would expect truth,
accuracy and objectivity and was told by the manager "Well, we're a
left-leaning publication" so I said a few polite words and then got up and
left.

So sad; the press was supposed to be the bulwark between liberty and
tyranny. Now they come off like the highpriests of ancient times.