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independent.ie and their "breaking news" airline stories.

  • 10-11-2017 5:50pm
    #1
    jetsonx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭


    Is anyone else getting tired of independent.ie and their "breaking news" airline stories.

    So a vigilant airline pilot decides to abort a take-off or landing at an Irish airport - this becomes a "breaking news" story.

    An airline crew abort a take-off because of technical concerns - this gets reported.

    Flight diverts to another airport for safety reasons - this gets reported.

    Does the Irish independent have a reporter at Dublin airport waiting to get cheap news stories? What the Irish Indpendent are really doing here is punishing safe airline pilots for the sake of cheap headlines. I cannot help but thing that some pilots and their airlines might be making less-than-safe decisions to avoid negative media coverage.

    Do think that in the interest of public safety these sort of stories should be clamped down on?


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  • #2
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    It's a sh*tpiece rag. The quality of the writing is shocking.


  • #3
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    It's filler news, cheap and easy and high impact as everyone reads about plane "disasters"


  • #4
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    They might have an aerosexual reporter.
    When I worked in the airport some staff were mad into aircraft ("aerosexuals").
    They went abroad to other airports and wrote down the registration numbers of aircraft they saw.


  • #5
    One More Toy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,880 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    It's a sh*tpiece rag. The quality of the writing is shocking.

    Agreed. Theres no irish media which is unbiased (eg. RTE) or owned by non-dom tycoons (DOB)

    I subscribe to the guardian app for a fiver a month

    If you must read a paper:

    Incognito window for the irish times

    Or

    If you are really desperate, irish independent BUT use adblock so DOB can funnel away more money to Malta


  • #6
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    The guardian is not unbiased, it's very left leaning. That said I don't think it's possible to be entirely unbiased.


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  • #7
    One More Toy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,880 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    The guardian is not unbiased, it's very left leaning. That said I don't think it's possible to be entirely unbiased.

    True (Not far left enough for me granted) but at least its ownership is a trust and not some business man who isnt domiciled in the country


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