Typical News Reporting on an accident

He is not a journalist- he does not have nor can he hold on to any kind of
regular employment. However, he is smarter and more educated than everyone
else in the world, and won't hesitate to tell us. Why he continues to
dominate this and other newgroups is baffling.

It is a greater comment, about who responds to him.

Viperdoc wrote:
He is not a journalist- he does not have nor can he hold on to any kind of
regular employment. However, he is smarter and more educated than everyone
else in the world, and won't hesitate to tell us. Why he continues to
dominate this and other newgroups is baffling.

"Jules" wrote in message
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It is a greater comment, about who responds to him.

What's you point?

"El Maximo" wrote in message
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Unfortunately, journalists cannot be specialists in everything, so they
often get all sorts of things wrong.

Are you a journalist?

I'm a former journalist with a degree in technical journalism. There is no
part of the curriculum or stylebook pertaining to aviation and at no point
does somebody come up to a student journalist or young reporter and say
"Look, you guys. It's called an engine failure. Not an engine stall..."

Almost all journalists use the Associated Press Stylebook or something
equivalent. Perhaps there's a need for an technological addition to the
stylebook, or a journalist's quick reference guide. It could include
nautical and aeronautical terms and concepts for aviation, boating and other
transportation--(is it "semi" "big-rig", "eighteen-wheeler",
"tractor-trailor"....) etc. That might fix a lot of things.

-c
Hmmm...what might a commercial pilot with a journalism degree do to help
rectify this situation?

"Gatt" wrote in message
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"El Maximo" wrote in message
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Unfortunately, journalists cannot be specialists in everything, so they
often get all sorts of things wrong.

Are you a journalist?

I'm a former journalist with a degree in technical journalism. There is no
part of the curriculum or stylebook pertaining to aviation and at no point
does somebody come up to a student journalist or young reporter and say
"Look, you guys. It's called an engine failure. Not an engine stall..."

I was more referring to his sweeping statement that "They often get all
sorts of things wrong".

As a journalist, I consider you to be qualified to weigh in on this subject.

I suspect the closest thing to journalism that Anthony has done was a book
report on a Hardy Boys mystery.

"El Maximo" wrote in message
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I'm a former journalist with a degree in technical journalism. There is
no part of the curriculum or stylebook pertaining to aviation and at no
point does somebody come up to a student journalist or young reporter and
say "Look, you guys. It's called an engine failure. Not an engine
stall..."

I was more referring to his sweeping statement that "They often get all
sorts of things wrong".

Yeah. It's pretty easy to trash-talk somebody who writes under a deadline,
probably lives in near poverty and might have to cover politics, medical
science, aviation or economics on any given day. Journalists get a lot of
crap because they're never as much of an expert as the experts they're
quoting.
Granted...some reporting is just stupid. It would be useful for local
publications if they had journalists who were aviation experts, or medical
experts, or whatever but not all of them can or do.

CNN has a few pilots on its staff that they consult whenever there's an
accident. That's useful. Plus, it adds a -lot- of credibility to that news
outlet. Unfortunately, most reporters don't make nearly enough money to dump
into an aviation hobby.

The easiest way to convert a publication that may be lukewarm or clueless
about general aviation is to take some of them flying. A professional pilot
in a clean aircraft who can demonstrate the concepts to them and answer
their questions will gain their respect. The FBO owner in Troutdale has
done just such a thing; when he installed his new TruFlite sim he put some
reporters in it and appeared quite favorably in at least two newspapers and
local TV.
That's good advertising! (The TV reporter augered, though.)

-c

El Maximo writes:

I was more referring to his sweeping statement that "They often get all
sorts of things wrong".

Most people, when talking about something with which they are not already
fairly familiar, will get all sorts of things wrong ... and that includes
journalists, who are no more omniscient than anyone else (although they may
have a pretty broad superficial exposure to many subjects). But since
journalists explain things to other people, their mistakes are more
significant.

As a journalist, I consider you to be qualified to weigh in on this subject.

Thanks.

writes:

The reporters never seem to get that a stall has nothing to do with
the engine.

They were quoting a passenger, and the passenger apparently said the engine
stalled, which could well be a cause for a crash (whereas an aerodynamic stall
should not have been). Small aircraft often have engine problems,
unfortunately.

Mxsmanic wrote in
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writes:

The reporters never seem to get that a stall has nothing to do with
the engine.

They were quoting a passenger, and the passenger apparently said the
engine stalled, which could well be a cause for a crash (whereas an
aerodynamic stall should not have been). Small aircraft often have
engine problems, unfortunately.

No, they don't, fjukkwit


Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote:
Small aircraft often have engine problems,
unfortunately.

Evidence ?
Or are you just spamming the newsgroup again?