[;)]After all those fine folks in the news crafting get their “degree for news broadcasting” , I wonder if Mr. Cronkite is turning over in his grave ??
More than likely. “Uncle Walter” and his colleagues were of the generation of journalists who came up the hard way through print media and the old “what-when-where-why-who” philosophy of reportage. You made sure all those blanks were filled in or your story didn’t get printed.
In a way, remembering some of the interviews I saw with Cronkite towards the end of his life I’m pretty sure he saw what was coming, although he wasn’t in a position to do anything about it.
Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Edward R. Murrow, Howard K. Smith, Bob Trout, Harry Reasoner, we’ll never see their like again I’m afraid.
“Wild Bill” O’Reilly on Fox News came close before he disgraced himself. Got too big for his britches I suppose. What a shame.
Salena Zito appears to be one the remaining old school reporters, having spent 2016 driving across the US talking to people while reporting on the Presidential election, rather than being part of the herds covering the candidates. Since she is close to my age, her journalism training dates back at least 3 decades, i.e. “what-when-where-why-who” approach to reporting.
One other bright note was the high school journalist’s interview of SecDef Mattis, asking some insightful questions.
Yes, and sometimes it works out. The Gimli Glider episode is one of the better ones.
Yep, The December 28, 1978 crash of United Airlines Flight 173, which happened only 2 miles from my Home, would be a pefect example.
Due to an issue with a landing gear condition indicator light, the crew flew around for an hour, trying to remedy the trouble, they mentioned the fuel state a few times, but never gave it the priority it deserved.
Eventually the plane simply ran out of fuel, and the laws of gravity were enforced, it was one of the leading cases in implementing CRM (Cockpit Resources Management)
It was surprising that the casuality list was as small as it was , only 10 Fatalities with 24 injured among 179 survivors, with NONE killed on the ground. This happened in a Heavily wooded neighborhood, with large Douglas Fir Trees. An apartment building was damaged and several houses destroyed. One story reported of a homeowner getting an urge for Planters Peanuts, who went to the store to buy some, and came home to a destroyed house, I imagine that he bought stock in Planters after that.
One of the saddest parts of the story was that, the landing gear was SAFE, and that a damaged micro-switch caused the issue leading up to the crash.
The story was aired on the TV Show “MAYDAY” and aired in 2012, on the “Focused on Failure” episode.
A Sad story, that Fortunately didn’t turn out any Sadder than it did, it could have been much worse.
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Now that you mention it, after being drafted during the Nam era I spent some time in NJ flying in the OV-1, the Mohawk, and there were 2 instances where that was a REAL POSSIBILITY, altho a documentary of either would hardly last an hour. I was an aviation crew chief attached to FT Monmouth but stationed at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, NJ. I was attached to the signal corps and we were flying “projects” related to night stereo photography with both visable and IR strobe lights.
One day I was to fly observer with a major that came out of Tea Neck, NJ to pilot an OV-1 that was being flown in from Aberdeen Proving Ground and ferry it to Twentynine Palms, CA, pick up another plane and ferry it to China Lake, CA, then fly commercial back. The pilot that ferried it in to Lakehurst wrote up that circuit breakers were popping all the time. Page Aircraft, the civilan contractorat LNAS could not find anything wrong.
The next AM we took off in broken clouds and ascended to 8,000 ft and everything appeared normal. Somewhere over MD the master caution panel came on – aft boost pump failure – one of 2 fuel pumps. I pushed the breaker back in and it popped again. A few minutes later another warning came on – forward boost pump failure. We now had NO FUEL PUMPS but the OV-1 would gravity feed under 6,000 ft, but we were at 8,000! Not to worry I thought.
Because the intercoms didn’t work
[?]There is one news"flash" that happened about a grade crossing event, the car was hit , and the brilliant news person asked"Why didn’t the train swerve out of the way of the auto? This happened last year. WOW!! No Silver apple award there.