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Old Apr 14, 2006 | 8:38 pm
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From NBC 5i KXAS-TV

City Aims To Demolish Love's Gates As Peace Offering

Video report included at link.

[i](HKG_Flyer1 comment: This story illustrates some incredibly poor/sloppy reporting techniques:

It included a stand-up interview with Rudy Longoria of the Love Field Citizens Action Committee, apparently in front of his house. Interposed in the interview is what appears to be a close-up shot of a Southwest Airlines plane on final approach. What are the problems:
1) The reporter refused to mention that Rudy apparently has a brother Ray who appears to have a direct financial interest in nearly every construction project which has ever been completed at DFW Airport;
2) Mr. Longoria lives nowhere near a flight path... the shot of the plane must have been taken somewhere else, or Mr. Longoria was standing in front of someone else's house.
3) The reporter implied that Mr. Longoria speaks for the neighborhood, when in fact that is not the case.

It included a stand-up interview with Jay Pritchard, without mentioning that his organization is 100% funded by American Airlines.)

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