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AOPA confirms CBS hatchet job on Eagles Nest Residential Airpark news story
In a story in today's e-mailed AOPA magazine, AOPA confirmed that CBS
ignored information given them during the interview that the Eagles Nest Residential Airpark was a lot safer than they portrayed during their "news" broadcast. Following is an excerpt from the article: AIRPORT MANAGER LEARNS HARD LESSON IN WAKE OF TV REPORT CBS News' recent report on the "lack of security" at general aviation airports and how the story took shape offer a strong warning to pilots contacted by reporters. The CBS report used Eagle's Nest Residential Airpark in Waynesboro, Virginia, to illustrate its premise--that GA airports have no government-mandated security. But it wound up hanging both general aviation and airport manager John Trissel out to dry--something that a call to AOPA's Communications Department might have helped avoid. "I told them that we're a gated community with tire spikes at the gatehouse for protection," Trissel told AOPA. "I told them about AOPA's Airport Watch and that we'd implemented virtually all of its suggestions. I told them that I live right beside the runway, and talk to the planes from my bedside, if necessary, no matter what time of night they leave, to verify who's in the aircraft." But none of that made it into the report. And Trissel ended up victimized twice--once by CBS and again by hundreds of pilots who sent him some scorching e-mails. "Almost all of the e-mailers wrote back apologizing when they had heard the full story," Trissel said. CBS also got a flood of mail from pilots. Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-Mich.), a pilot, AOPA member, and member of the House aviation subcommittee, wrote CBS saying that security at general aviation airports has improved dramatically since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. See AOPA Online for more about this story and what to do if you are contacted by the media for an interview End of quote. Corky Scott |
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Now is there any more question whether you should talk to the media? They
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"C J Campbell" wrote in message ... Now is there any more question whether you should talk to the media? They are not interested in your side of the story. Thus their motto...."never let the truth get in he way of a good story." |
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"Dave Stadt" wrote in message m... | | "C J Campbell" wrote in message | ... | Now is there any more question whether you should talk to the media? They | are not interested in your side of the story. | | | Thus their motto...."never let the truth get in he way of a good story." The Bremerton Sun came out to interview the manager of one of our apartment complexes after a crime was committed there. The reporter wanted to show that we were this big drug dealing center, that drug paraphernalia were constantly being found in the playground, and that gun crimes happened almost daily. None of this was true -- we have never found drug paraphernalia on the grounds, for example -- but when our manager would not say what the reporter wanted her to say, she simply made up the quotes she wanted. Then she misspelled the manager's name. |
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"Corky Scott" wrote in message ... In a story in today's e-mailed AOPA magazine, AOPA confirmed that CBS ignored information given them during the interview that the Eagles Nest Residential Airpark was a lot safer than they portrayed during their "news" broadcast. I realized, and reaffirmed, the otherday why I never watch CBS news. In fact, I turned to CBS to watch the GA story only because I knew of the story ahead of time (I usualy watch NBC Nightly News). I can't recall the last time I watched CBS news. Little doubt of the reaons for that now. I wonder how many others are in the same boat (plane) as me and only tuned CBS to watch the story, or even more so, how many who have watched CBS up until recently that no longer will. |
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"Jim Hendrickson" wrote:
I wonder how many others are in the same boat (plane) as me and only tuned CBS to watch the story, or even more so, how many who have watched CBS up until recently that no longer will. I didn't even have to do that. It was on CBSnews.com for download. I even used the feedback form to let 'em know how I *really* felt. Rob |
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"Rob Perkins" wrote in message ... "Jim Hendrickson" wrote: I wonder how many others are in the same boat (plane) as me and only tuned CBS to watch the story, or even more so, how many who have watched CBS up until recently that no longer will. I didn't even have to do that. It was on CBSnews.com for download. I even used the feedback form to let 'em know how I *really* felt. Rob When I went to CBSnews.com several days later I noticed they still had the story as a "feature" |
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