"Dude" wrote:
1. Noticed on Avweb that Dan Rather (the head of CBS News)

Dan Rather is not the head of CBS news, unless you mean the "talking
head." He has bosses; Andrew Heyward is the president. In light of the
shrill sensationalism in their story about the threat from small
airplanes, pilots will no doubt find some irony in speech he gave a few
years ago to the Radio and Television News Directors Association in Los
Angeles:

"The people out there in America know that life is not as simple as what
they see on the news: a world of heroes and villains, winners and
losers, exploiters and victims, yet that's what we show them, night
after night. We reduce complicated debates over policy to political
slugfests, which we cover as though they were sporting events.
"And when news is over-hyped, a cynical public tunes it out. Over the
years, we've exaggerated so much that we've eroded our own ability to
convey what's truly signficant. If everything is momentous, nothing
stands out."

Anyone else suspicious about all this? I don't think this story is
about
jounalistic ineptitude, I smell an agenda by Mr. Rather.

Mr. Rather is no friend to GA, as evidenced by some of his off-hand
comments during the hoopla over the JFK Jr. crash, but it would be
conceited to think that CBS news cares enough about GA to have an
"agenda" about it. Neither do I think this story was jounalistic
ineptitude; rather, it was cynical, calculated fear-mongering for
ratings.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM
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