Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
11-14-2014, 05:45 AM
The Brown Dot +1
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Neither. I like the fact that he's telling the truth, and I always like that the truth is the truth. The problem is that this video was blacked out by every news organization except Fox News. Were it not for Fox News, I would not have seen this video of Obamacare's chief architect describing the importance of the law's lack of transparency and the reliance on "the stupidity of the American people." Now people like Gomerglideslope feel like this is a non-story and any news organization that does air this non-story should be denigrated. Gomerglideslope and the like want to save me from wasting my time watching non-stories by ensuring those non-stories never get aired.
I need to hear all sides and all opinions in order to make the best decisions. The conservative view is only aired on Fox News. That's the problem. It's that lack of balance that is driving the ratings drop at all news organizations...except Fox.
That he is, and that kind of attitude never helps. But a guy like that can't help himself.
Carl
I need to hear all sides and all opinions in order to make the best decisions. The conservative view is only aired on Fox News. That's the problem. It's that lack of balance that is driving the ratings drop at all news organizations...except Fox.
That he is, and that kind of attitude never helps. But a guy like that can't help himself.
Carl
The soup or the daily show are better news outlets than the networks.
11-14-2014, 06:23 AM
Doesn't Get Weekends Off
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Come on guys it's not that hard...... Just bid a new plane and go to the schoolhouse for assimilation. 
I do agree though....... Having just come through a training event the chatter in the cockpit is crazy. I find this to especially be true during our most critical phases of the operation! While I think briefing things are good we should focus on the importance of the brief not the laundry list someone has devised.
I do agree though....... Having just come through a training event the chatter in the cockpit is crazy. I find this to especially be true during our most critical phases of the operation! While I think briefing things are good we should focus on the importance of the brief not the laundry list someone has devised.
11-14-2014, 06:30 AM
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I think crap is crap, and you can't excuse the outrageous non-news behavior of networks that are ruthlessly killing journalism, on the basis of whether they're closer to your own leanings. They're all mostly crap.
If you want news, I think you have to import it. The BBC is probably OK, and as much as I hate to say it, I suspect Al-Jazeera MIGHT be somewhat more like an actual news network, but I have a strong bias against them.
Which leaves the Onion.
Good luck with that ebola. There is some stuff on Deltanet that should clear it right up for you
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Very nice post on profit-sharing three pages ago, btw.
If you want news, I think you have to import it. The BBC is probably OK, and as much as I hate to say it, I suspect Al-Jazeera MIGHT be somewhat more like an actual news network, but I have a strong bias against them.
Which leaves the Onion.
Good luck with that ebola. There is some stuff on Deltanet that should clear it right up for you
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Very nice post on profit-sharing three pages ago, btw.
11-14-2014, 07:03 AM
looking for underboob
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Any guesses on what time the AE will be posted?
I say 3:02pm
I say 3:02pm
11-14-2014, 07:22 AM
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I don't think he's giving it a 100% pass as much as he's saying that Fox News presents a contrived contrast of the news against other media outlets. Trust me, there is plenty of shows on Fox News I can't stomach, but I think the network plays an invaluable role.
If majority of news organizations leaned right, I would say the same about MSNBC.
Honestly, majority of news reported these days is driven at being sensational in an attempt to gum up knee-jerk emotional responses from the public. Journalistic integrity free of bias is for all intensive purposes gone.
But who knows, after 80 hours in Ghana I could be ebolaing myself.
If majority of news organizations leaned right, I would say the same about MSNBC.
Honestly, majority of news reported these days is driven at being sensational in an attempt to gum up knee-jerk emotional responses from the public. Journalistic integrity free of bias is for all intensive purposes gone.
But who knows, after 80 hours in Ghana I could be ebolaing myself.
How do I know it's propaganda? Because, somehow a handful of cases of Ebola became a political issue. Republicans blamed Obama for not halting flights and not establishing a quarantine, the Democrats blamed Republicans for cutting funding to the CDC; and guess who fed the frenzy? MSNBC, FOX, & CNN.
Did it stop when the nurses recovered? No.
Did it stop when none of the original patients family members got it? No.
Did it stop when none of the passengers on the airplanes that the nurse took got it? No.
Ebola is a 40 year old virus that has sprung up off and on since the 1970's and each one of those networks reported it as if the future of this country was in jeopardy.
Fox is a good contrast to the other networks? Hardly.
There is no contrast to anything when it's all junk.
Thanks 80!
11-14-2014, 07:27 AM
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If I had a cough, it was from that passenger who was hacking up a lung behind me on my commuter flight. (People. Please cover your mouths.) But, my cough is gone now.
11-14-2014, 08:04 AM
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News: I watch PBS and BBC. They tend to less sensational and more focused on journalism vs entertainment and shock.
Americans are terrible at assessing risk. We are afraid of the wrong things. There were pilots on this very thread ready to go to their bunkers in full-blown panic mode over the coming Ebola-zombie apocalypse just a few short weeks ago.
As far as briefs go I never understood briefing aborts on every trip. Unless there are unusual circumstances that need to be emphasized (windshear) shouldn't everything be Delta standard? "We'll abort for this, but not for that, you do this, I'll do that, you make the PA ..."
Americans are terrible at assessing risk. We are afraid of the wrong things. There were pilots on this very thread ready to go to their bunkers in full-blown panic mode over the coming Ebola-zombie apocalypse just a few short weeks ago.
As far as briefs go I never understood briefing aborts on every trip. Unless there are unusual circumstances that need to be emphasized (windshear) shouldn't everything be Delta standard? "We'll abort for this, but not for that, you do this, I'll do that, you make the PA ..."
11-14-2014, 08:06 AM
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AE is up in icrew. Not anything too interesting except for new hires wanting to move bases. But wow, 150 Atl ERB's! 67 new capt slots-mostly NB.
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11-14-2014, 08:08 AM
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News: I watch PBS and BBC. They tend to less sensational and more focused on journalism vs entertainment and shock.
Americans are terrible at assessing risk. We are afraid of the wrong things. There were pilots on this very thread ready to go to their bunkers in full-blown panic mode over the coming Ebola-zombie apocalypse just a few short weeks ago.
As far as briefs go I never understood briefing aborts on every trip. Unless there are unusual circumstances that need to be emphasized (windshear) shouldn't everything be Delta standard? "We'll abort for this, but not for that, you do this, I'll do that, you make the PA ..."
Americans are terrible at assessing risk. We are afraid of the wrong things. There were pilots on this very thread ready to go to their bunkers in full-blown panic mode over the coming Ebola-zombie apocalypse just a few short weeks ago.
As far as briefs go I never understood briefing aborts on every trip. Unless there are unusual circumstances that need to be emphasized (windshear) shouldn't everything be Delta standard? "We'll abort for this, but not for that, you do this, I'll do that, you make the PA ..."
11-14-2014, 08:13 AM
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Brief the abort in detail on the first leg with a new FO and then on subsequent briefs it's just "Aborts, previously briefed with no additions". (Unless there is an additional threat.) Aren't we all doing that?
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