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!
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.
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).
Of course, and especially in SF where every word, expression and gesture in MSM must be run through the protected classes PC filter.
Free Republic called the Egyptian Coup almost to the minute, hours before the networks did.
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..
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!
It PO’s them to no end.
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.
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!
Amateurs are also good at getting stories out that the left-wing media suppresses or won’t cover. They are naked.
Megyn Kelly/Shannon Bream tag team...