[nagdu] Service Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency landing ofUS Airways flight to PHL

[Doug Parisian via nagdu]

Indeed, a news story? Using the same logic of longevity, Stalled was 
also in power for many years.

Little wonder that ther is increasing mistrust and contempt for 
mainstream media with that kind of journalism, that creep was every bit 
as contemptible as some of the passengers.
On 31/05/2014 1:09 PM, Craig Heaps via nagdu wrote:
> As a professional journalist for nearly forty years and a guide dog 
> user myself, I could not disagree more with those who criticize this 
> as a story.
>
> It is a legitimate news story.  It's an extraordinary event on a form 
> of transportation used by millions of people every year in the United 
> States. It is the fact that it happens so seldom that makes it news.  
> It has the element of "Can you imagine being in that situation?" that 
> also makes it worthy of coverage.  I thought the reporter did an 
> excellent job of putting the incident in perspective by including the 
> guy from The Seeing Eye and the comments from the airline spokesperson 
> saying it's extremely rare.
>
> I am sympathetic with those passengers who found the smell 
> overwhelming. It's not the atmosphere they expected when they paid 
> good money for their tickets.
>
> I can understand the defensiveness of some guide dog users who want to 
> lash out at the journalistic decision to cover this incident.  But 
> they sound like the people I had to deal with every day who didn't 
> want some event or another "publicized" (reporters hate that word) and 
> tried to argue it was stupid to think it was a legitimate story.  
> Think about the last time you heard the story of some belligerent 
> drunk on a plane who had to be restrained with the help of other 
> passengers.  Another disturbing, but rare, event.  Was covering that 
> also stupid?
>
> Sorry for the semi rant.
>
> Craig and Chase, who I hope never poops in an airliner
>
>
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