Amazingly bad media reporting...

I love the part where CNN has a reporter with no aviation background whatsoever reporting a potential NMAC event.
 
Pathetic...Jet Blue pilot had the traffic in sight. No panic except for the reporters. Must have been a very slow news day.

Moral of this non-story, NEVER rely on CNN for your news. Entertainment...that's fine but not news.
 
Unprofessional sensationalist reporting with little understanding of the subject matter. But I didn't notice any blatant errors on the factual side.

The quote:

"..an incident involving a JetBlue flight that nearly missed colliding..."

was humorous, but that's just a butchered example of the King's English, not a misrepresentation of fact.
 
Greg Bockelman said:
That is why I don't pay attention to the news anymore.
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This.

Generally, if I know the true story, I'm disappointed in the reporting of the story. I can count dozens of times over the years where I read, watched, or listened to a story where I was involved or very close to the story and the report completely misrepresented the facts.

The scary thing is I'm sure that is true for many other stories/subjects too, and I'm left wondering which parts of those stories <as reported> are completely wrong...
 
JetBlue's callsign is now Deborah. :rofl:
 
Am I smokin' dope again or didn't we just talk about this a couple of weeks ago? Or was that on Red?
 
I love how awful the transcript of the voice recorder was. via? oh, you mean VFR? Definitely 94? So 94? Who the hell was listening to the tape?
 
The _squeal_ was NOT the TCAS warning!
 
Collision warning? That's not what that sounded like to me. Glad those reporters didn't hear about that SWA 737 that passed behind and 500 feet below me a couple weeks ago. Sounds like it would have been another near midair that should result in a rule change.

Makes me wonder how much I could make as an aviation consultant for the news channels just to help them know what VFR means. I'd even throw in making the transcripts of the radio calls for cheap.
 
Two miles is a 'near miss'?

That 'long beep' sure sounded like a heterodyne to me...
 
"I mean if you are in a plane and you hear THAT..."

...it means the system is working as it should. Hell, I heard "THAT" 4 times on my flight home from Palm Springs last night!

Sheesh...
 
Wow this happens all the time in busy airspace... must be a slow news day ??

Why didn't anyone report when this Fed Ex Jet about "ran me over" close to Indy? <<being sarcastic!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fdfx34oG70

Oh wait we both had each other in site and he turned well before getting close to me..

I love how they speak with such confidence about something they have no clue about !!!
 
Shawn said:
"I mean if you are in a plane and you hear THAT..."

...it means the system is working as it should. Hell, I heard "THAT" 4 times on my flight home from Palm Springs last night!

Sheesh...
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:yeahthat:

Would it really be that hard to run these things by someone who at least has a student pilots license :rolleyes2:

Heck I bet they all know a few news copter guys, ask them before you make a ass out of yourself and scare the drooling masses into a frenzy.

This is why I don't have cable.
 
James331 said:
:yeahthat:

Would it really be that hard to run these things by someone who at least has a student pilots license :rolleyes2:

Heck I bet they all know a few news copter guys, ask them before you make a ass out of yourself and scare the drooling masses into a frenzy.

This is why I don't have cable.
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They don't care as long as they get ratings. Sensationalism gets ratings. They are measured and rewarded based on ratings. Ratings drive advertising revenue which is how the station/show succeeds.

Individual journalists may indeed care, but the system is structured to weed them out.

John
 
Yes that's correct, the had the via traffic inside. It was a real close one.
 
Sensationalism sells,have to try and out do the other media. Might have been nice if CNN was using a pilot as their talking head. We have the aircraft in sight works for me.
 
Reporters are pretty faces reading the news.
They are not paid to think.
 
The near miss was on our local news that same evening.
Maybe CNN didn't know about it for weeks because no one there could be bothered to take their heads out of their ...
Never mind. Nothing will change.
 
A career ago I was occasionally an expert source for various media, including MSN. What struck me is that I would be linked to the producer(s) with my little earpiece and I would outline the facts, what could be speculated on, what could not be. They asked reasonably intelligent questions. Then the voice in the ear piece would tell me I was going live, and the questions became insipid, making it clear what I was telling the producers was not making it to the models -- er, anchors. Finally I ran out of fingers to stick in the dam and gave up.
 
Deja vu.
This looks like an exact copy of a thread from a few weeks ago. Can't find it though. Not like I care wasting time searching for old threads.

Journalism is about making money off of idiots who are willing to pay money for lies and misinterpretation from other idiots with not much education and no scruples. Not my cup of tea. I avoid both crowds if I can.
 
Oh my gosh... Do you think any of the passengers screamed out in terror?

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