silver-eagle
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Police in Michigan involved in a high-speed chase with a drug suspect.
And how does "NORTHWEST" and/or "PILOT" figure into this?
And how does "NORTHWEST" and/or "PILOT" figure into this?
What's "PILOT" got to do with anything?
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Greebo
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Simple - scare tactics sell.
Cops chasing some doped up loser, no big deal.
Cops chasing someone who flies planes for a living scares people - it could be THEIR pilot who's doped up...
Cops chasing some doped up loser, no big deal.
Cops chasing someone who flies planes for a living scares people - it could be THEIR pilot who's doped up...
gkainz
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same sorry excuse for journalist sensationalism when every semi-automatic weapon becomes AUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPON in every story. Or "The engine stalled" or "No flight plan was filed" or whatever ... canned phrases that seem to be mandatory in any story ...
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KennyFlys
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Yep, relevance isn't required to any great degree.
Sound bites are chosen to draw listeners to radio and TV. Tag lines are chosen to draw hits to a web page. Money's the bottom line.
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aw, com'mon guys, you found the story interesting, didn't you? They didn't have to name the airline, but the fact that he's a pilot for the majors adds a little kerosene to the fire. I found it more interesting because he was a pilot than I would have had he been a cab driver or wal-mart clerk.
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Go look at the Va Tech shooting stories. For back info they are referring to the Charles Witman shooting at UT in 1966. They did then and still are referring to him as a former Marine. It is a label that the press will use to describe someone of a certain character. In the Charles Witman it was the 'trained soldier/patriot' descriptor. For this case it the 'responsible professional'. Those descriptors then show how the person is more mainstream and add shock value to their offenses.