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In SFO Air Disaster, Amateurs Lead Networks in Breaking News
Brietbart News ^ | July 7, 2013 | Lee Stranahan

Posted on 07/07/2013 10:43:47 AM PDT by Zakeet

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The networks have lost their place as the gatekeepers of information and are clearly no longer the first place to go to stay abreast of developing stories ... but they are still by far and away the best source of the two staples in the news business ... Bias and BS!

1 posted on 07/07/2013 10:43:47 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Not only in breaking news, but in determining what went wrong as well. On another thread an “expert” called the pilots “totally incompetent”. Other experts figured it all out. I think the pilot should have logged in to Free Republic before landing and consulted to experts. Next time.


2 posted on 07/07/2013 10:46:04 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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I think I'm missing something, so help me out fellow FReepers.

FOX News, and the other 24 hour "news" channels, stuck with this story for hours and hours yesterday with barely a hint as to anything else going on in the world. I finally turned off the TV and came back here to FR to get the real news.

It was just a friggin' plane crash! Why the hours and hours of coverage (of practically nothing). FNC even deleted The Five and I didn't get to see Andrea!
Ooops, forget that that last part. I didn't say that.

I turned FNC on again last night at one o'clock and they were still on the plane crash! So what was so riveting about a plane crash where only two people died (not to trivialize the deaths, tragic as they truly are).

3 posted on 07/07/2013 10:50:04 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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In SFO Air Disaster, Amateurs Lead Networks in Breaking News

Of course, and especially in SF where every word, expression and gesture in MSM must be run through the protected classes PC filter.

4 posted on 07/07/2013 10:50:28 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Zakeet

Free Republic called the Egyptian Coup almost to the minute, hours before the networks did.


5 posted on 07/07/2013 10:52:02 AM PDT by nikos1121 (“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet)
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I had FOX on for much of the day. I love Heather Childers..she has the best pair of legs on FOX, period ( and she’s 44, BTW)She does the 5am show..sitting on a bar stool..starts my day off right..but several hours of her yesterday, pretending to know what she was talking about as regards aviation.. was too much for my brain to handle..


6 posted on 07/07/2013 10:52:34 AM PDT by ken5050 (Due to all the WH scandals, MSNBC is changing its slogan from "Lean Forward" to "BOHICA")
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These idiots kept droning on about “the tail fell off the plane” and whether or not that had anything to do with the crash. . .this was despite time and time again showing clear shots of the rock jetty at the end of the runway that was CHOCK FULL OF PLANE DEBRIS. . .It was obvious that the pilot had landed short and that the tail had contacted the rock jetty. . but no. . the idiots kept on and on about “how could the tail just fall off like that?”. . DUH!!!. . .Finally after about 90 minutes of this idiocy. . a general aviation pilot was interviewed who revealed the obvious. . .”it landed short”. ..what a scoop!


7 posted on 07/07/2013 10:52:58 AM PDT by McBuff
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So what was so riveting about a plane crash where only two people died (not to trivialize the deaths, tragic as they truly are).

It made the MSM talking heads feel relevant, so they strettttttttch it out for as long as they can.

8 posted on 07/07/2013 10:54:05 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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I love Heather Childers..she has the best pair of legs on FOX, period...

You HAVE a volume control AND a mute button.

9 posted on 07/07/2013 10:56:33 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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It PO’s them to no end.


10 posted on 07/07/2013 10:57:51 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Q: The worst president in US history?)
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Exactly. The “Wait For It” news channels were milking this accident for everything they could get out of it. Shortly after the accident occurred, a FReeper posted a photo of the passengers walking away from the plane carrying their luggage like it was just another day at the airport.


11 posted on 07/07/2013 11:00:01 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If America is a nation of immigrants, where's my free stuff?)
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The MSM has zero investigational powers, and must wait
until the First Undocumented Moslem gives them their script.


12 posted on 07/07/2013 11:01:41 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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A successful landing on the adjacent runway, 28R:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3HKN-FWNq0

It was the inaugural flight of the Airbus A380 into SFO. Lufthansa 454 from Frankfurt.


13 posted on 07/07/2013 11:02:24 AM PDT by cynwoody
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I love Heather Childers..she has the best pair of legs on FOX, period

Visual evidence, please.

14 posted on 07/07/2013 11:03:00 AM PDT by McBuff
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To: Revolting cat!

All the networks, major & cable did a miserable job reporting on this horrible accident. I will not go into details...but this incident should be left to the experts to determine the real cause or cause.. Having a career in aviation for over fifty years, I can assure you that what was said on TV as to what happened to the aircraft was incorrect and actually a laughable farce, stating it mildly!!!


15 posted on 07/07/2013 11:08:00 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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16 posted on 07/07/2013 11:12:54 AM PDT by RedMDer (When immigrants cannot or will not assimilate, its really just an invasion. Throw them out!)
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I haven’t watched network news in many years.

I log on to FR early every morning and go to the forum. I refresh it about every 20 minutes.

Works for me! The only slant I want on the “news” is freeper slant—LOL!


17 posted on 07/07/2013 11:13:23 AM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: McBuff
Visual evidence, please.


18 posted on 07/07/2013 11:16:40 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.)
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To: Iron Munro

Thank you!


19 posted on 07/07/2013 11:21:26 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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Can she tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye?


20 posted on 07/07/2013 11:22:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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