Government Deceit on RAAF Controller Deployment

"The Snake" wrote in message
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Phil Miller wrote:

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 19:26:06 +0930, "Alex"
wrote:

SNIP CRAP


Snake,
You have made the incredibly easy mistake of believing what you read/hear
from the media. Journos are very uncomfortable with info on a subject they
know little about (just about everything) and will dumb it down and make it
newsworthy (despite the facts).

So what happened was they were told the team to go and support Baghdad
Airport ATC services contained so many controllers, so many technicians, so
many IT geeks and so many protection forces, they could not handle it and
just called them all controllers.

Now, having created the lie, they (the media in general) simply could not
back down and admit they erred, so the lie was ever perpetuated because it
SOUNDS GOOD.

It has nothing to do with the Govt, its just another media **** up. Don't
feel bad mate, you're not the first and you won't be the last.