Dick Rutan makes emergency landing in C150

Gig601XLBuilder wrote:
Martin X. Moleski, SJ wrote:
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:03:09 -0600, Gig601XLBuilder
wrote in
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Matt Whiting wrote:

Marty Shapiro wrote:

There was an newscaster in the Bay area many years ago who
read an report about a GA incident on the air. This report
contained several factual errors about the incident, among which
was the picture of a twin for the single engine aircraft involved.
The irony was he was a well known local pilot. About a week later,
he MCed an all day safety seminar. The first question asked of him
was about the factual errors in his report. His response was "I
receive a 7 figure salary for reading the news that is handed to me
by the editors. If they give me advance copy and I notice an
error, I'll point it out to them, but when I'm on the air, I am not
going to jeapordize my salary by altering what they hand me."

I find it amazing though that any TV news anchor would say that in
public or even in private. Not that I question Denny's story at all I
just find it amazing.

From the snippet we have--which is probably not from a transcript,
but from memory of the event--there is insufficient evidence to
condemn the newscaster.



If he said anything close to what he was quoted as saying then I stand
100% behind my statement

There's an axiom in the business...

If a media type is writing a magazine article, they may get it right.
Writing a newspaper article, they won't get it right.
Has a TV camera on their shoulder, run in the opposite direction as fast
as you can.