Media screws up again...

"OtisWinslow" wrote in message news:ZGoxc.17162721

What the media needs is integrity and a desire to tell the truth. And that
will never happen. Media reporting is about entertainment .. not truth.

To be fair, it various from source to source. Media -reporting- is about
truth. What the publishers and editors do to it to sell ads is another
issue, but it's not consistent. It's difficult to measure up to the ideal
when advertisers seem to pull support at the drop of a hat.

What might solve some of the ignorance (viz the "stall" confusion) is some
sort of informational brochure or handbook that teaches at least the very
basics of GA terminology and science, and encourages introductory or
discovery flights for reporters. In fact, if the GA community tried hard
enough, they could probably get the aerodynamic definition of a "stall"
added to the Associated Press Stylebook.

Hmm. That gives me an idea...

-Chris Gattman
[PP/SEL instrument and commercial student.
freelance writer, former magazine editor-in-chief
Bachelor of Science, Journalism]