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Don't you people ever say anything nice about the media?



Well, the media are arguably the most influential political entity in the
US, yet they are held to virtually no ethical standard. They routinely
resort to hyperbole, dramatisation, scare tactics, anti-intellectual
analysis, egregious populism and virtually every other form of
disinformation to sell copy. This would be fine, you say, they distort,
we decide, yet by placing angel-faced intellectual zombies to report on
complex issues, they affect our lives in more ways than we would like. If
a news reporter feels that an accident can be used to sell copy, through
a "Planes are dangerous - GA must be curbed" viewpoint, then there is
nothing to stop them from so doing, and knowledgable rebuttals will never
get the air time the initial chill story received.

So how did Ms Horsey get the job of telling the world the technical
details about this crash, when she doesn't know that an A340 has four,
wing-mounted engines? Obviously, she has to report on an aviation
accident one day, and a cloning controversy the next, with Adidas'
takeover of Reebok thrown in between - and no one can be fully versed in
every subject, but is this a satisfactory excuse? Considering the effect
they have on our lives, can we expect no entry-level competence in
reporting?