Originally Posted by fairviewroad
Ah, but that's precisely what upfront01 is doing, isn't it? Upfront01 wasn't on the flight in question, yet upfront01 knows exactly what was going on. People are so quick to criticize the press when they don't get every little jot and tittle correct when writing about airplanes, but keep in mind this guy isn't even an aviation reporter. He's a City Hall reporter who just happened to be on the flight. As such, he's probably representative of the general traveling public. I think his column probably reflects the feelings of many on that flight: confusion, fear, anger, relief, annoyance.
No, Bartley Kives is a music "journalist", not a city hall/news reporter, which is why the article is written in such an editorial fashion. Too much conjecture, suppositions and opinions for my taste.
http://www.rrj.ca/issue/2000/spring/312/
The Toronto Star's Rayner, 25, and The Ottawa Sun's Ostroff, 23, join T'Cha Dunlevy at Montreal's The Gazette, Stuart Derdeyn at Vancouver's The Province and Bartley Kives at the Winnipeg Free Press as examples of a new breed of music journalists currently changing the way metropolitan dailies cover music. Reporting stories "from the inside out," adopting a style more in keeping with local alternative weeklies and looking critically, often harshly, at music are characteristics of this new style, as these writers go about setting mainstream rock reporting on its ear.