Comments on: “Wild Wild West?” http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=334 A place to discuss safety-of-flight issues, procedures, techniques, and judgment. Tue, 21 May 2013 15:17:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lee Simkins http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=334&cpage=1#comment-24812 Lee Simkins Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:58:30 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/asfblog/?p=334#comment-24812 Sadly, there is much less objective reporting today than in the past. News is more and more about entertainment, sensationalism, editorializing, and less about objective reporting of (perhaps less entertaining) facts.

Many of the people I work with, and for, refuse to give interviews or sometime provide only written responses to minimize risk of being (consciously or not) misquoted or misrepresented.

It is a challenge, for all of us who support and understand GA, to do our best to present the facts, the risks, and the rewards of GA to those with whom we interact. Based on your experience, I would take this as a warning to not trust Fox News in the future.

]]> By: Chuck http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=334&cpage=1#comment-24745 Chuck Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:11:33 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/asfblog/?p=334#comment-24745 Well put Bruce, it just seemed that FOX really locked in on this accident with over a couple hundred hours of coverage to a level I have never seen in a GA accident. I do not believe the schedule 121 accident on a LAX runway got that level of coverage…I normally like FOX’s coverage, but they really went for the hype this time.

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