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Mar 13, 2019, 9:04 pm
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The FAA has an 'administrator who reports to a cabinet secretary who reports to the president. The FAA is bound by their own regulations. They have a right to take action against those regulations on their own volition or under direction by the cabinet or the president.
The NTSB is more independent in that they work under the rules approved by congress
I can't recall any historical downside to this arrangement in the last 50 years
Mar 13, 2019, 10:55 pm
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Car wrecks aren't unusual. Air crashes are extraordinarily unusual. Of COURSE the news media is going to report on such incidents.
Plus, you have the one thing all TV news media needs to survive: Visuals. Sweeping shots of devastated landscape with pieces and parts of planes are exactly what the media thrives on. That and fire, which is why wildfires are ALWAYS given over-emphasis on the news.
Mar 14, 2019, 8:20 am
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Auto fatalities are not only common as DenverBrian pointed out, but they are also local. Local TV news has an auto accident fatality story on their broadcasts nearly every night. Of course the national news won't care about Billy Bob from Mexia, TX dying by drunkenly driving into a ditch on Hwy 84. You can't compare highway deaths to 200 people dying all at once from a single incident. Now if every 2017 Chevy Silverado suffered the exact some mechanical/system failure all across the country, at the exact same time that resulted in 250 deaths, of course it would be national news worthy.
Mar 14, 2019, 8:34 am
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I mean the news outlets were digging out all the lobbying Boeing did, the financial contributions to senators etc and also that like dozens of people inside the FAA are actually Boeing employees which in turn certify their own products for safety. For Boeing it just makes sense to ground them and push the rumours around "why not grounding them" aside. So CNN and co won't dig deeper into all the fraud and corruption that's actually happening.
Mar 15, 2019, 3:43 pm
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Auto fatalities are not only common as DenverBrian pointed out, but they are also local. Local TV news has an auto accident fatality story on their broadcasts nearly every night. Of course the national news won't care about Billy Bob from Mexia, TX dying by drunkenly driving into a ditch on Hwy 84. You can't compare highway deaths to 200 people dying all at once from a single incident. Now if every 2017 Chevy Silverado suffered the exact some mechanical/system failure all across the country, at the exact same time that resulted in 250 deaths, of course it would be national news worthy.
Mar 15, 2019, 4:32 pm
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Mar 15, 2019, 6:12 pm
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