Vintage Jet Slams Into Homes Near Air Show

"Emily" wrote in message
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Oh, please. I just don't like journalists.

The newsgroup has a new Political Correctness Officer. Please run all
future posts through Emily to make sure you're not offending anybody.

Also, and for the record, exactly one person in the world gives a damn what
Emily thinks about journalists.

-c

"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...
"Near miss" despite the grammatical error, implies a hit: it nearly
missed. i.e. it hit.

"Nearly hit" is what people mean when they say "near miss."

Professors and editors have been going round and round about this forever.
It's one of those things where, at the end of the day, you just shrug it off
and say "The people have decided that 'near miss' means 'near hit' much as
the word 'awesome' now means 'cool' and 'hot.'")

-c

"alexy" wrote in message
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But I think you and I are on the losing side of the word purity
battle--incorrect usage repeated often enough becomes "common usage",
which in turn becomes "correct".

Same thing with using the ambiguous term "bi-annual" in place of biennial.

*shudder* Good example of one of those words where you have to pause,
figure out which it means, and then figure out what the person saying it
actually meant. "Now, you're saying bi-annual, right? Not biennial?"
("Yeah. Biannial.")

-c

"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
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Just what does "augered his jet and died doing something he loved" mean?

"Auguered his jet and died doing something he loved."

I'm sorry if that's unclear.

love to fly but if I die in a hole in the ground I can guarandamntee you I
will not have died doing something I loved to do, long life or otherwise.

Yeah, well, we don't get to choose whether we die. It's going to happen.
The guy was in his 70s. He could have died of testicular cancer, emphysema,
bone cancer, alzheimers, he could have suffered from MS, he could have
fallen and hit his head in the bathtub, he could have had a stroke or an
aneurism or been paralyzed in a car accident. He could have been murdered
by a robber, he could have had a liver failure and died slowly and painfully
in his own systemic toxins.

He died flying. He loved flying. I have relatives dying of stomach cancer.
They don't love stomach cancer. Are we on the same page now?

-c
"If you wish to be a gray-haired wonder, keep your nose out of the blue"

"gatt" wrote:
Gee, why would anybody trust a journalist about matters of journalism?

"... If you don't want to work, become a reporter. That awful power, the
public opinion of the nation, was created by a horde of self-complacent
simpletons who failed at ditch digging and shoemaking and fetched up
journalism on their way to the poorhouse. ..." -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens

I guess I could claim to have been a "journalist" too. Even a publisher.
The problem being, as Mark Twain understood (having been a journalist
himself) is that it appears takes no qualifications to become one.

That's rather like trusting an aviator about aviation. But the
difference between me and people who snivel about words like "slammed"
is that I -do- have military, civilian and academic experience in
journalism and I -do- have experience in aviation. So...

I'm afraid I see no real difference between you and those "snivelers".
Sorry.

Boyer would approve of that headline also.

Or: "Home recently constructed in vicinity of airport destroys vintage
jet and kills experienced hero pilot."

The guy is obviously rich and has a set a brass ones. But 73 years old,
flying a vintage fighter jet.....

Jim Logajan wrote:

"gatt" wrote:
Gee, why would anybody trust a journalist about matters of journalism?

"... If you don't want to work, become a reporter. That awful power, the
public opinion of the nation, was created by a horde of self-complacent
simpletons who failed at ditch digging and shoemaking and fetched up
journalism on their way to the poorhouse. ..." -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens

I guess I could claim to have been a "journalist" too. Even a publisher.
The problem being, as Mark Twain understood (having been a journalist
himself) is that it appears takes no qualifications to become one.

That's rather like trusting an aviator about aviation. But the
difference between me and people who snivel about words like "slammed"
is that I -do- have military, civilian and academic experience in
journalism and I -do- have experience in aviation. So...

I'm afraid I see no real difference between you and those "snivelers".
Sorry.

IMHO, you are showing your ignorance. In fact, most of the
non-journalists here have agreed that "slammed" is a perfectly
appropriate word to describe what happened.

I am not a journalist, and I certainly deplore the bad examples of
journalists (which exist, just as in any other profession, although
much more visible in theirs).

But it strikes me that a good journalist does what I could never
accomplish--get a good, fast, surface level grasp of a situation and
describe it so that those with no background can understand it. In a
way, it is kinda like a CPA--requiring extensive, but not very deep
knowledge. And like a CPA, they are continually harangued about their
lack of knowledge in particular areas in which the haranguer has much
more knowledge.

Next time you want to jump on the bashing bandwagon when a particular
journalist shows a lack of knowledge in a field you know well, look at
his or her last few assignments and see if you know as much about
those areas as the journalist.

P.S. None of this is intended in any way to deny the existence of
dimwits in journalism.
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Maybe two. She has an ally in Boyer, who believes journalists should first
contact AOPA before writing on anything GA related.

Yeah. I'm just picking up on what an English professor used to rant
about...

He also used to get on weathermens' cases and sportscasters. He got riled
up when an announcer would say the baserunner has "good speed" or when a
weather broadcaster would say "shower activity" instead of "rain."

(Since you are a journalist, you might like the old set of Edwin Newman
books, "Strictly Speaking" and "A Civil Tongue." Newman, correctly IMO,
has great criticism for those who wreck the language. )