Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Newsweek screws up bad!
It doesn't have anything to do with causing anti-U.S. riots around the world by reporting on systematic U.S. policy to denigrate Islam and humiliate U.S. prisoners who practice it. There are already at least four other media citations of such disgusting behavior, so it doesn't matter if News-weak retracts, contracts, withdraws, disavows, shrinks, grovels, or licks Scott McClellan's loafers while reciting the First Amendment.
Nope. Newsweek's screw-up this week is its total failure to source its "Conventional Wisdom." To wit: it gives a big down-arrow to (all?) Piper Pilots, referring to the dim-witted flight instructor who taught his student to fly into Washington's Class B airspace without clearance.
The screw up: they were flying a Cessna, not a Piper! One page further into the same Newsweek issue, the plane shown is a Cessna 150, N5826G.
The down-arrow should go to that particular flight instructor, not to all Piper or Cessna pilots. But before it puts its broad brush away, "Conventional Wisdom" should give itself a down-arrow too!
A word to Newsweek's Wisdom team: Cessna 150s are not retractible.
Nope. Newsweek's screw-up this week is its total failure to source its "Conventional Wisdom." To wit: it gives a big down-arrow to (all?) Piper Pilots, referring to the dim-witted flight instructor who taught his student to fly into Washington's Class B airspace without clearance.
The screw up: they were flying a Cessna, not a Piper! One page further into the same Newsweek issue, the plane shown is a Cessna 150, N5826G.
The down-arrow should go to that particular flight instructor, not to all Piper or Cessna pilots. But before it puts its broad brush away, "Conventional Wisdom" should give itself a down-arrow too!
A word to Newsweek's Wisdom team: Cessna 150s are not retractible.
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