bassexpander
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 Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:28 pm Post subject: Anyone else notice the media spin protecting Airbus lately? |
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Anyone else notice that the media has been prompted to go out of its way to protect Airbus in the wake of recent accidents? I wouldn't have paid much attention to this story, but the obvious spinning going on is putting up red flags for me -- makes me wonder why there is so much Airbus name protectionism out there. Hmmm....
I don't know who it's coming from -- Airbus, the airlines who purchased Airbus, the newspapers? One way or another, it seems like the French are behind it. It's apparent that the comments in stories involving the French downing of the Airbus jet have been placed to protect the Airbus name and not scare off passengers. Just keep reading and look for them -- you'll see what I mean.
When the stories began reporting possible problems with sensor tubes icing over, it was reported that the problem was supposed to have been fixed. That's fine, but since some negative feelings cropped-up about that, it seems there has been a push to almost make the disaster sound terrorist-related (see 2nd comment):
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/11/air.france.crash/index.html
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"I am not convinced that the sensors are the cause of the accident," said Air France Chief Executive Pierre-Henri Gourgeon.
Still, he said, the airline will continue with a program, begun just days before the crash, to replace the sensors on its Airbus A330s, the same type of plane that crashed June 1.
The sensors on the doomed plane hadn't yet been replaced, he said.
"Airbus and the European Aviation Safety Agency maintain that the A330/A340s are safe with any one of the three types of existing sensors," Gourgeon told reporters in France. |
The above article is interesting, because it goes on to say:
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L'Express said identification of the two people was not complete because French intelligence services did not yet have their birthdates. The names, L'Express also said, could also be "simple homonyms."
An official with the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center said the names are not on any U.S. watch lists.
"We have no information that would confirm people on our consolidated watch list were on that Air France flight, at least not as of right now. We could always receive additional information," the official said. "There's nothing to suggest at this point that there were people on the flight we were keeping an eye on." |
And here's an AP story which seems more like an attempt to make it sound like the Airbus plane was not faulty in any way. Of course, we have no proof about anything, and to claim the pilot wasn't around also carries no proof. Just another example of the spin being put out there to keep the Airbus name "safe".
French: No sign of problem with Air France jet
http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=51802360&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281 |
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