This is the fundamental problem.

Anything that is reported by the press on which I have the slightest bit of experience will easily be proven as totally wrong. This generally is related to anything concerning an aircraft or a jet engine.

The requirement for accuracy is simply dismissed out of hand in favor of sending something...........anything.........out over the airwaves. The lack of any desire for a correct report is simply unacceptable, IMHO.

Sorry, but the pressure to meet a deadline doesn't give you carte-blanche to put out the first line of BS that comes into your head.

Your profession is suffering an ongoing degradation of respect due to such behavior...........and the profession has certainly earned it.

Considering that the average American is a moron, you might as well just make up the entire article with virtually no investigation whatsoever...........because............it doesn't matter.