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Unfit for Publication: How USA Today Got Everything Wrong
USA Today splashed across its June 18, 2014, front page the breathless headline, "Unfit for Flight" to dramatize the deadly enterprise of flying general aviation aircraft (small airplanes). There is only one problem: Nearly every inference about aviation in the article is wrong. (www.huffingtonpost.com) さらに...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Why cant the media,,all elements of the media, be more knowledgeable of a subject before they report on it? We see this kind of sensationalism on TV and in print all the time...In Texas, traffic deaths are posted on highway signs,,almost 1400 so far this year,,and other then GMs problems, very little is said about highway safety..come on, lets see some common sense in reporting...
Because boring reality doesn't generate advertising dollars. So long as news reporting is "for profit" it will never be fair, accurate, or unbiased.
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
I read the original article, the one that was posted here. I don't normally read USA Today. I didn't have a chance to go back and check the authors claims, but having been in aviation for over 30 years, my gut instinct was that the article was written more for sensationalism rather than responsible journalism. USA Today has become the US equivalent of the UKs Daily Mail, or Germany's Bild.
I get the article has problems. But simply comparing raw number of deaths to other things is just as misleading and incomplete an analysis as the original article they are blasting.
There are roughly 250,000 GA aircraft and over 12,000,000 recreational boats in the US. Comparing raw deaths is just as misleading as the original article. Is it really worth pointing out that an activity with 5 times the number of "participants" has only double the number of fatalities?
There are roughly 250,000 GA aircraft and over 12,000,000 recreational boats in the US. Comparing raw deaths is just as misleading as the original article. Is it really worth pointing out that an activity with 5 times the number of "participants" has only double the number of fatalities?
Just how many professional people have wished the darkest of thoughts towards so call journalism? I consider a true journalist to be one that writes for a journal and everyone else to be a low reporter under orders to get a story and give little thought the effects or damage caused knowing they can claim the 'dubious' rights of a free press. To be clear
, if Flight International/Flight Global publish anything, it is as solid as a rock but as the contributer believes, the UK Daily Mail or other low level outfit it should be considered as entertainment and the writers as simple performers under orders to deliver, never to be considered to be a true and honest journalist.
Still want to protect a free press?