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capsteve
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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Location: NIAGARA FALLS NY
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 Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: Cirrus & journalists |
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I think your kind of confirming the original point. No matter how well you
do your job of reporting and getting the facts straight, the editors and
producer's job is to make the story "digestible" to the viewer. How often
have you seen well written and researched stories hacked to pieces to "make
it better".
Usually the only time I've seen stories get published the way they were
written is in the editorial section.....
Just my observations.......steve
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Bob Collins
Joined: 11 Mar 2006
Posts: 470
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:33 am Post subject: Cirrus & journalists |
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//I think your kind of confirming the original point. No matter how well you
do your job of reporting and getting the facts straight, the editors and
producer's job is to make the story "digestible" to the viewer. How often
have you seen well written and researched stories hacked to pieces to "make
it better".
Well, I'm an editor and I can tell you that very few stories should get
published as written. Ideally, however, the process is that of a "team" not
running something up a bureaucracy. The problem I had in my newsroom this
week was exactly the opposite of what you describe. The person with the most
knowledge of aviation was -- and is -- an editor, just not the editor
assigned to this story. The reporter, the editor, and the managing editor
were -- are -- non-pilots and non-educated in the field of aviation issues.
The problem I had this week was that the story that ran DID run as written.
It's the editor's job to make sure the story is "digestible" . I can't speak
for the "viewer," I can only speak for the reader and/or listener as I'm not
in TV "news" (an oxymoron, by the way).
Frankly, as I think I said before, the assumptions that are rampant in the
media toward aviation, born of ignorance more than anything else....are also
on display when aviators talk about the media and what their intent is and
what their processes are. You see the final result...what's on TV and say
"that's good enough for me." That's EXACTLY what the people who saw the
final result in new York city this week said and...voila....the FAA slaps
new restrictions on it.
We think the news media should know more about aviation. But we don't seem
to embrace the concept that aviators should know more about the news media.
In other words: we're committing the same sin we accuse the news media of,
with the same results.
The only logical and reasonable road is to first attempt to understand the
other side, and get the other side to understand you. Nothing else will
work. So the two sides are going to have to work together rather than
folding our arms, saying "you suck" and wondering why they're picking on
general aviation. Where is the evidence that that attitude works?
You know, I see those Rosie the Riveter, World War II posters -- the "We Can
Do It Posters" -- selling like hotcakes at Oshkosh and elsewhere.
Why we don't carry that atittude toward this mission is beyond me. But
we're a different country now than we were in World War II. Let's face it,
we want everything, and want to sacrifice nothing. It'd be great if it were
that easy. It wasn't then; it's not now.
Bob
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jsflyrv(at)verizon.net
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:05 am Post subject: Cirrus & journalists |
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This new political group is great, just to bad it is listed as an RV-List.
Jerry
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Bill Schlatterer
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:18 am Post subject: Cirrus & journalists |
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Also reported with to be "controlled with a Joystick instead of conventional
steering wheel,..... ".
Bill S
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Vanremog(at)aol.com
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:14 pm Post subject: Cirrus & journalists |
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In a message dated 10/15/2006 11:09:30 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jsflyrv(at)verizon.net writes:
| Quote: | | This new political group is great, just to bad it is listed as an RV-List. |
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Well... we've been the religious fervor list before and we recovered from that, so I guess we'll leave the political science (an oxymoron if I ever heard one) thread behind in November. ;o)
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GV (RV-6A N1GV O-360-A1A, C/S, Flying 811hrs, Silicon Valley, CA)
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