Comments on: The Risks of Flying in News Helicopters http://www.bloggernews.net/18973 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:32:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: julio57 http://www.bloggernews.net/18973#comment-854163 julio57 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:32:04 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/18973#comment-854163 "The helicopters were following a stolen white truck towing a trailer at the time of the crash which landed in a downtown park." This sentence is wrong in so many ways as for one thing it makes it sound like the truck towing the trailer landed in a downtown park. The helicopter landed or crashed in a downtown park, the way this is written we don't know what crashed in a downtown park. I add this comment because you assert that you have "High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news." Not in this article you don't. You also mention Dornacker in the fourth paragraph, without giving a first name and without stating that she was (presumably) the WNBC person killed in 1986. Again, sloppy. “The helicopters were following a stolen white truck towing a trailer at the time of the crash which landed in a downtown park.”

This sentence is wrong in so many ways as for one thing it makes it sound like the truck towing the trailer landed in a downtown park. The helicopter landed or crashed in a downtown park, the way this is written we don’t know what crashed in a downtown park.

I add this comment because you assert that you have “High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news.” Not in this article you don’t.

You also mention Dornacker in the fourth paragraph, without giving a first name and without stating that she was (presumably) the WNBC person killed in 1986. Again, sloppy.

]]> By: mark http://www.bloggernews.net/18973#comment-67108 mark Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:22:05 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/18973#comment-67108 Is the crash video going to appear on "amazing, something something"? I just hope it comes on during the NBA season, so I'll have something somewhat interesting to watch. If there weren't so many idiots tuned into stupid chases and human tricks, maybe the bush regime wouldn't have lasted as long as it has. You get what you pay for. Is the crash video going to appear on “amazing, something something”? I just hope it comes on during the NBA season, so I’ll have something somewhat interesting to watch. If there weren’t so many idiots tuned into stupid chases and human tricks, maybe the bush regime wouldn’t have lasted as long as it has. You get what you pay for.

]]> By: Andy http://www.bloggernews.net/18973#comment-66830 Andy Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:08:40 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/18973#comment-66830 If the stations were actually using their resources to pursue real news, like investigating the criminal Bush regime, these folks would likely be alive today. If the stations were actually using their resources to pursue real news, like investigating the criminal Bush regime, these folks would likely be alive today.

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