Tabloid journalism and aircraft

[The Basket]

Typical

 

[swampyankee]

Related is the editorial standards for engine manufacturer: the make of engine should not be mentioned if it's GE. This may be related to GE having owned NBC for a number of years or to GE spending a lot more on advertising than its competitors.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Brilliant!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Everytime there is a plane crash this gets posted to social media with that airplanes type written on it...

 

[fliger747]

Every time I have read a news article that I had some actual knowledge or expertise about, I's bore little relation to reality.

Makes you wonder about the veracity of those ones you don't have direct knowledge of!

 

[FLYBOYJ]

 

[Shortround6]

It was always with a sense of wonderment and amusement at the firehouse to read about a fire we had worked the night before in the morning paper

Typical comment was "was that reporter at the same fire we were at?"

 

[pbehn]

In Tabloid land there is a convention that you don't repeat a word. This means after calling a DC-3 a vintage aeroplane once, the next time it gets called a WW2 jet.

 

[special ed]

The reporters always try to find a witness who is semi literate. My favorite was after a Caravan loaded with the CG way too far aft crashed on takeoff on the MSY perimeter, the witness said " Yeah I seen it. It done a tail swoop and fell down."

 

[GrauGeist]

Once in a while, they get more than the aircraft type wrong.

TV station KTVU in San Francisco was covering the Asiana 214 crash at SFO and the gal read this list of Asiana's crewmember names.

On live TV...

 

[Milosh]

LOL!!! She done get trolled, be sure as I remember that posted as a meme.

 

[GrauGeist]

I was watching that evening broadcast while I was eating dinner and I about choked with a mouthful as she was reading that list!!

 

[at6]

"Journalists" aren't the brightest creatures on Earth. Amoebas have higher I Qs.

 

[Barrett]

What at6 said! But it's not just tabloids. A few years ago (to cite just one instance) a UK online magazine (general interest, not just aviation) observed the anniversary of the Battle of Midway. The aircrew depicted: RAF pilots
standing around
a hawker Typhoon.
You know it's true.

 

[herman1rg]

I often see a report on the news where aviation is mentioned and they use a stock picture which turns out to be totally innacurate. You might think that a picture Editor (or whatever they are called) sees a report that says the aircraft involved was a "Hawker Hunter" and a picture of say a Jet Provost pops up.

 

[R Leonard]

And it is even worse when some journalist decides his extensive years as a writer qualifies him as a writer of history . . . never researched before, why start now?

 

[The Basket]

This is why i no longer read newspapers.
or watch the news
I got my own prejudices and nonsense running round my head so dont need anyone elses.

 

[R Leonard]

Just remember, if it is grey, floats. and has a gun, it must be a battleship

 

[Greg Boeser]

I still like the newscaster who reported that the victims of a crash were taken to a hospital where they were threatened and released.

 

[jetcal1]

Just remember, if it is grey, floats. and has a gun, it must be a battleship

Oh, like an LCS?/s