CBS NEWS - An Idea

"Steve Robertson" wrote in message
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| If you pay attention to whom is sponsoring the 3 major news shows,
including
| CBS, you will notice that virtually all of the commercials are for
medicine. And
| far and away the most number of commercials are for laxatives. I'm not
kidding.
| Watch and see for yourself. GA would be wasting it's money advertising to
the
| sick and constipated.

Says something about CBS viewers, doesn't it?

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| While I don't condone CBS's actions, keep in mind that YOU don't believe
| everything you see on the news. Why assume that everybody but you believes
it?
|

The trouble is, some people will believe it, even the ones that don't
believe everything they see on the news.

Personally, I am reaching the point where I don't believe anything I see on
the news.

"C J Campbell"
Personally, I am reaching the point where I don't believe anything I see
on
the news.

Someone explained to me that the only thing you can get from news media with
some reasonable assurance of accuracy are the "actualities". I don't know
abou the word, but it goes something like this with regard to the CBS
report:

From that report I can reasonably assume that:
- there are airparks where people live with their planes
- there is an airpark called xxxxx in Virginia
- the former NTSB official did work for the NTSB.

....and that's about it. The rest of it can't necessarily be believed. You
might as well be sitting in a bar talking to someone you just met about GA
airport security, or anything else for that matter.

I try to remember that whenver a plane crash is reported. No matter the
details reported, all I can reasonably assume is that a plane crashed.

Maule Driver wrote:

I try to remember that whenver a plane crash is reported. No matter the
details reported, all I can reasonably assume is that a plane crashed.

And always remember that if it happened frequently, it wouldn't be news and they'd
never report it.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Maule Driver wrote:

I try to remember that whenver a plane crash is reported. No matter the
details reported, all I can reasonably assume is that a plane crashed.

And always remember that if it happened frequently, it wouldn't be news
and they'd
never report it.

A few weeks ago there was a fatal car accident at the intersection near my
house. Two people killed, intersection tied up for four hours, Med-evac
flight....

Didn't receive even a single word of mention in the newspaper.

OTOH, every "special interest" (read: hype for another government program)
story....

"Maule Driver" wrote in message
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"C J Campbell"
Personally, I am reaching the point where I don't believe anything I see
on
the news.

Someone explained to me that the only thing you can get from news media
with
some reasonable assurance of accuracy are the "actualities". I don't know
abou the word, but it goes something like this with regard to the CBS
report:

From that report I can reasonably assume that:
- there are airparks where people live with their planes
- there is an airpark called xxxxx in Virginia
- the former NTSB official did work for the NTSB.

...and that's about it. The rest of it can't necessarily be believed.
You
might as well be sitting in a bar talking to someone you just met about GA
airport security, or anything else for that matter.

I try to remember that whenver a plane crash is reported. No matter the
details reported, all I can reasonably assume is that a plane crashed.


Can't even assume that as they consider someone landing without scratching
the plane after an engine out to be a crash.

"Dave Stadt"

I try to remember that whenver a plane crash is reported. No matter the
details reported, all I can reasonably assume is that a plane crashed.

Can't even assume that as they consider someone landing without scratching
the plane after an engine out to be a crash.

You're right. Maybe only that a plane came down somewhere 'unintended' and
'unexpected'...maybe not even that.