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The reports that I heard indicated that he received and acknowledged an
altitude alert at 800 feet, just before the accident. Was that not from Tower? Andrew Gideon wrote in online.com: snip Or he never completed the hand-off. TRACON might have switched him at 5 miles, but the aircraft never contacted the tower. I don't know. Frankly, there's a lot about this that confuses me. No warnings about being too low from ATC? I once has a TRACON controller contact me almost breathlessly about my altitude (which was, fortunately, a transponder problem). And this was in VMC. snip This does trigger a memory, though. During my primary training, my CFI wanted to go up into a snowstorm. Not knowing any better, I questioned it but didn't refuse. We were at the hold line just about to get onto the runway when the tower talked some sense into the CFI (and the controllers tone helped me push the matter). What if that hadn't occurred? I don't recall the CFI carrying any extra (ie. IFR) charts. And those weren't planes I'd take into IMC myself (from my current perspective) anyway. Scary. Indeed. |
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Who pays the salaries of the Press?
Do you think your piddly 50-cents is covering the cost of the crappy newsprint your paper is printed on, much less the costs of the equipment and labor required to paginate, platemake, press, package, distribute and deliver a newspaper? I believe it costs the newspapers something like $3 per newspaper to do that. And the carrier takes half of the 50-cents that you pay for it... Advertising pays the bills, and the newspaper's first allegiance is to the advertiser. It's been that way pretty much from the very beginning. Journalistic Integrity is only a priority if it doesn't conflict with revenue generation. How much do you pay to watch a News Report on a network TV channel? How much of your $50 cable bill do you think goes to CNN? The priorities in TV media are no different. The CUSTOMER in the media is the ADVERTISER, not the reader. The reader is just a means to support the customer. For a long time, the media talked about journalistic integrity because they thought it was necessary to be taken seriously and increase circulation (which subsequently allows them to charge more to advertisers), especially as compared to the tabloids. Most papers were family owned and operated, and the publishers looked at the tabs as junk and embarrasing, and it inflated their egos to know their paper was "above that." However, over the years, and especially since the success of CNN during the Gulf War in 1990, it has become apparent to the newspapers that sensationalism works, and the junk tabs have circulations higher than theirs... That, in combination with the growing number of corporate buyouts from companies like Gannett, Tribune, NYT Co, Knight Ridder, Newhouse, CNHI, and others have nearly eliminated family-owned newspapers that were driven by the ego of a person who has "run this paper with integrity for generations" in favor of papers that are driven by corporate agendas and wall-street reporting requirements. And so, as newspaper publishers recognize that junk is more profitable than integrity, and get pressure from their corporate executives to show better numbers, they forget about enforcing integrity and accuracy, and focus on generating revenue, selling advertising, and cutting costs. Some papers today barely have stories in them anymore - they've become advertising rags. As the quality of the product goes down, and the readers become more cynical, the circulation continues dropping (WSJ reported a 1.9% decline in circulation this year), and the whole thing backfires. Over time, there will be a backlash, and at some point newspapers will get back to basics - reporting local stories with integrity to provide a product that their readers cannot get anywhere else - not on Major Metro TV networks or mass-market Internet Web sites. And perhaps the circulation will tick up again. But make no mistake - the newspapers are feeling the crunch, and don't seem to understand that journalistic integrity, which is now low on thier list, is a significant player in their recovery. It will be interesting transition to watch. "Gig 601XL Builder" wr.giacona@coxDOTnet wrote in news:Vfube.24313$up2.19288@okepread01: wrote in message ... On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 04:35:27 GMT, "H.P." wrote: They're stupid AND lazy. I was in P.R. for about 10 years and reporters just ate out of my hand. I basically did the work for them on the facts and my clients paid for it. My biggest successes were stories that I wrote but were printed whole cloth by the paper. I once was duped by a client. I sent out press releases, press kits and got the nets, locals, cable and radio to cover an event based upon a wrong premise. I got ink, video and radio for my client like there was no tomorrow. Not one of them fact-checked. Let's see if I understand this... YOU were duped, and the newspaper reporters were the ones at fault for not fact-checking? No he was given false info by his client who paid him to get it out in the press. He had no responsibility to prove everything that he gave the press was true. If PR people had to do that they would all be out of business in a week. Their job is to spin information to put their client in the best light. On the other hand the press has a responsibility to check facts. ESPECIALLY when it comes from a PR firm. |
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On Mon, 30 May 2005 17:43:14 GMT, Judah wrote:
Who pays the salaries of the Press? The CUSTOMER in the media is the ADVERTISER, not the reader. The reader is just a means to support the customer. Yeahbut. The commodity the medium is selling to the advertiser is eyeballs. Eyeballs of particular ages, genders and income levels. Advertisers want to base their buying decisions on circulation, zipcodes and ratings. To that extent, the reader/viewer could influence what runs in the media. Except when every medium is controlled by one entity, at which point the reader/viewer *and* the advertiser both have hobson's choice. Don |
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Don Tuite wrote in
: On Mon, 30 May 2005 17:43:14 GMT, Judah wrote: Who pays the salaries of the Press? The CUSTOMER in the media is the ADVERTISER, not the reader. The reader is just a means to support the customer. Yeahbut. The commodity the medium is selling to the advertiser is eyeballs. Eyeballs of particular ages, genders and income levels. Most newspapers currently do a poor job of segmenting their markets and selling advertising based on demographics. They don't believe they can effectively distribute inserts to specific households accurately, even though the equipment has been capable of doing it for a decade. They think it is asking too much of a carrier to make sure that the paper with the address on it actually gets to that address, and as they all switch to Distribution Centers are concerned about their ability to control the carrier through the DC... Advertisers want to base their buying decisions on circulation, zipcodes and ratings. To that extent, the reader/viewer could influence what runs in the media. Only when the influence is En Masse. A few hundred eyeballs won't make a difference one way or the other, even to a small local paper. Only when enough of the general public start to react will an influence be noticed, much less be enacted. It's starting to happen - that's why circulation numbers are going down. Except when every medium is controlled by one entity, at which point the reader/viewer *and* the advertiser both have hobson's choice. Don |
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The Metars that day were as follows
KHPN 232056Z 19014G20KT 1/4SM FG OVC002 13/13 A2947 KHPN 232018Z 19012G20KT 160V220 1/2SM -RA FG OVC002 13/13 A2948 KHPN 231956Z COR 18012G20KT 3/4SM -RA BR OVC002 13/13 A2948 RMK AIRCRAFT MISHAP KHPN 231856Z 19012G16KT 1/2SM FG OVC002 12/12 A2951 KHPN 231756Z 18013G19KT 1/8SM FG OVC002 12/12 A2952 KHPN 231743Z 17016G22KT 1/8SM FG OVC002 12/12 A2951 RMK AO2 KHPN 231656Z 19013KT 1/2SM FG VV002 13/13 A2952 KHPN 231556Z 18006KT 1/4SM -RA FG VV002 12/12 A2954 turns out that POU had 800 foot ceilings and 7 mile visability and DXR had 300 and 2 mile vis..... The most charitable thing we can say is that praciticing IFR approaches in those conditions with a PPL student was less than optimal judgement. |
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"Judah" wrote in message
. .. Advertising pays the bills, and the newspaper's first allegiance is to the advertiser. It's been that way pretty much from the very beginning. Journalistic Integrity is only a priority if it doesn't conflict with revenue generation. In theory, perhaps, but not in practice. In the publications I've worked for (UK IT press), and indeed still work for, the editorial and advertising divisions have been deliberately separate. While the editorial people are sufficiently bright to realise that it's the advertising that pays their wages, the advertising people are also sufficiently bright to realise that (a) advertising revenue is proportional to size of readership; and (b) size of readership is proportional to quality of editorial. The two sides are therefore mutually sustaining. I have had instances where advertisers have made hints that they'll spend more if we write more about them (or, on rare occasions, if we'll be nicer about them than in the past). In all cases, the answer has been "no", and the publishers have stood behind us all the way. Not that they had any choice, actually, because writers and editors are fiercely protective of their personal integrity and reputation. Interestingly, though, where an advertiser has been upset that we've "not written enough about them" it has often been solved by a few minutes on the phone explaning how the editorial process works. I remember one case where we invited a furious advertiser to the office to explain to him the relationship between ads and editorial, and he went away smiling. All we'd done was point out that his PR people used to send us, on average, ten press releases a week - all about piddly little things, and none about their new product line (which was actually quite nice!) - and that if they restrained themselves and only told us, in decent sized chunks, when something happened that actually mattered, he'd stand half a chance of being written about. D. |
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UK is a whole different animal. After all - you guys don't even have
FSIs! And of course, that is why all us Americans who are looking for honest newscasts watch the BBC on PBS instead of the BS on CNN... "David Cartwright" wrote in : "Judah" wrote in message . .. Advertising pays the bills, and the newspaper's first allegiance is to the advertiser. It's been that way pretty much from the very beginning. Journalistic Integrity is only a priority if it doesn't conflict with revenue generation. In theory, perhaps, but not in practice. In the publications I've worked for (UK IT press), and indeed still work for, the editorial and advertising divisions have been deliberately separate. While the editorial people are sufficiently bright to realise that it's the advertising that pays their wages, the advertising people are also sufficiently bright to realise that (a) advertising revenue is proportional to size of readership; and (b) size of readership is proportional to quality of editorial. The two sides are therefore mutually sustaining. I have had instances where advertisers have made hints that they'll spend more if we write more about them (or, on rare occasions, if we'll be nicer about them than in the past). In all cases, the answer has been "no", and the publishers have stood behind us all the way. Not that they had any choice, actually, because writers and editors are fiercely protective of their personal integrity and reputation. Interestingly, though, where an advertiser has been upset that we've "not written enough about them" it has often been solved by a few minutes on the phone explaning how the editorial process works. I remember one case where we invited a furious advertiser to the office to explain to him the relationship between ads and editorial, and he went away smiling. All we'd done was point out that his PR people used to send us, on average, ten press releases a week - all about piddly little things, and none about their new product line (which was actually quite nice!) - and that if they restrained themselves and only told us, in decent sized chunks, when something happened that actually mattered, he'd stand half a chance of being written about. D. |
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I flew with this instructor...we finished the Instrument Rating I had
started 10 years ago. He was a careful pilot. He was meticulous in checking the weather. We did approaches that went missed in IMC, particularly at FOK.. Greg PP-ASEL-IA "Tom Fleischman" k wrote in message news:240420051342072877%bodhijunkoneeightyeightjun ... A Cessna 172 crashed yesterday short of the approach end of RWY 16 killing the pilot and instructor aboard. No cause for the accident has yet been established, but the weather was at or near minimums for the ILS-16 approach at the time of the crash and and tracking the flight on: http://www4.passur.com/hpn.html at 15:10 local time on 4.23.05 shows the flight significantly below the glideslope for much of the approach. From the news reports I'd guess that it was an instrument student and a CFII returning from ALB on a long IFR cross country flight. Here are a couple of news reports: http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/...27983&SecID=33 http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=3252575 |
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