BB
Attention to detail you say, eh?
Ha. It happens to the best of us.
...but then I'm not being paid to report here. And I'm not being paid to check facts before broadcasting them either. I'll have to check, but I'm pretty sure that Sky News staff are employed to do those things. And paid too.
SN2005 posted:
BBC LDN posted:
It's that attention to
deal
that makes Sky such a strong choice for those who really care about facts.
Attention to detail you say, eh?
Ha. It happens to the best of us.
...but then I'm not being paid to report here. And I'm not being paid to check facts before broadcasting them either. I'll have to check, but I'm pretty sure that Sky News staff are employed to do those things. And paid too.
LC
The reporter also said that the aircraft that was positioned in front of the triple seven was a jumbo. It was the smallest out of the airbus fleet the A 319 .But at the end of the day does it matter.
BBC LDN posted:
Sky News have repeatedly referred to the aircraft as "the BA Airbus". It's that attention to deal that makes Sky such a strong choice for those who really care about facts.
The reporter also said that the aircraft that was positioned in front of the triple seven was a jumbo. It was the smallest out of the airbus fleet the A 319 .But at the end of the day does it matter.
GM
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Dunedin posted:
Forgive me for being old-fashioned but does anyone really believe that you can say anything (including prejudicing a jury trial) by using apostrophes around the controversial parts?!!
Yes. Allegedly.
DA
Just a pitty it was a Boeing 777 that crashed, not an Airbus.
Edit: note to self: read the rest of the thread before replying!
Dave
Founding member
BBC LDN posted:
Sky News have repeatedly referred to the aircraft as "the BA Airbus". It's that attention to deal that makes Sky such a strong choice for those who really care about facts.
Just a pitty it was a Boeing 777 that crashed, not an Airbus.
Edit: note to self: read the rest of the thread before replying!
NG
Trust you were being ironic - if Sky were calling it an Airbus then they were hardly caring about the facts. It was established pretty early on it was a Boeing 777...
noggin
Founding member
BBC LDN posted:
Sky News have repeatedly referred to the aircraft as "the BA Airbus". It's that attention to deal that makes Sky such a strong choice for those who really care about facts.
Trust you were being ironic - if Sky were calling it an Airbus then they were hardly caring about the facts. It was established pretty early on it was a Boeing 777...
LU
Trust you were being ironic - if Sky were calling it an Airbus then they were hardly caring about the facts. It was established pretty early on it was a Boeing 777...
you need to read the thread.
noggin posted:
BBC LDN posted:
Sky News have repeatedly referred to the aircraft as "the BA Airbus". It's that attention to deal that makes Sky such a strong choice for those who really care about facts.
Trust you were being ironic - if Sky were calling it an Airbus then they were hardly caring about the facts. It was established pretty early on it was a Boeing 777...
you need to read the thread.
BB
Trust you were being ironic - if Sky were calling it an Airbus then they were hardly caring about the facts. It was established pretty early on it was a Boeing 777...
I'm pleased to say that I was of course being ironic - which is why I made the comment in the first place.
It was one of the first confirmed facts of the accident - and certainly among the first official information to come out of British Airways - that the aircraft was a Boeing 777-200 (or -236, to be specific, as x36 is BA's customer code), which makes it all the more inexplicable that Sky kept referring to it as "the BA Airbus" for hours after the news first broke and the aircraft type was confirmed.
No, in the broader framework of this accident, calling the aircraft an "Airbus" when it is made by Boeing is not particularly significant - but as we're discussing Sky's coverage of the incident here, and not the incident itself, I think I'm justified in asserting that it's pretty sloppy to allow that kind of easily-checked error to be repeated over and over again.
noggin posted:
BBC LDN posted:
Sky News have repeatedly referred to the aircraft as "the BA Airbus". It's that attention to deal that makes Sky such a strong choice for those who really care about facts.
Trust you were being ironic - if Sky were calling it an Airbus then they were hardly caring about the facts. It was established pretty early on it was a Boeing 777...
I'm pleased to say that I was of course being ironic - which is why I made the comment in the first place.
It was one of the first confirmed facts of the accident - and certainly among the first official information to come out of British Airways - that the aircraft was a Boeing 777-200 (or -236, to be specific, as x36 is BA's customer code), which makes it all the more inexplicable that Sky kept referring to it as "the BA Airbus" for hours after the news first broke and the aircraft type was confirmed.
Lewis c posted:
The reporter also said that the aircraft that was positioned in front of the triple seven was a jumbo. It was the smallest out of the airbus fleet the A 319 .But at the end of the day does it matter.
No, in the broader framework of this accident, calling the aircraft an "Airbus" when it is made by Boeing is not particularly significant - but as we're discussing Sky's coverage of the incident here, and not the incident itself, I think I'm justified in asserting that it's pretty sloppy to allow that kind of easily-checked error to be repeated over and over again.