Citations please?

In response to your response on how long you’ve been running this page, just because someone has done something for a long time, doesn’t mean they are any good at it. Very few aged cab drivers are successful NASCAR drivers, even though many drive like they are.

Older is obviously subjective. Any high paying profession with significant advancement gates, and those that require substantial training, experience, and skill are going to tend to skew towards “older”. You could say the same about surgeons and many other professions. Republican? That seems like an assumption made based on “the type of people you think pilots are”. Very anecdotal. I’ve seen a few informal polls that point in different directions on this. Piloting is still a heavily unionized job and those unions send funds to democrats more so than republicans.

@Frank – but statistically accurate

Oh Tim, I have huge respect for your contribution on matters aviation, but you are arguably misguided on matters pertaining to journalism.

“Once again, he is an OPINION part of Fox News, not a part of their core news function.”

But mate, that’s how trash media operates to influence the gormless to its owners political agenda. We know Murdoch is trash in terms of journalistic ethics. We’ve known that decades. We know from the phone tapping scandals in the UK.

“My beef is the use of words like “unhinged” and other derogatory words.”

It’s unhinged because the argument lacks logical structure. Much worse, there is a wanton and deliberate manipulation of the audience.

“There is an ELEMENT of truth to what he says and therefore it isn’t all false.”

WTF – it totally disrespects any factual foundation and factually crafted narrative.

“The point is not to blame the media for telling about them but to make sure these types of incidents stop happening.”

No. You the audience need to hold substandard and toxic media to account. Making claims based upon easily disprovable fake news , even as an “opinion” piece, does disservice to you, and your fellow countrymen.

My father, who was the head of news and current affairs for a highly respected national broadcaster in his day, would tell you (and Gary Leff and many others herein) to take your head out of your rear end on such matters and start demanding quality in your media. Savvy?!

Evidence presented in court reveals that Tucker Carlson, other Fox News on-air personalities, and Fox News executives have privately stated “brutal” criticisms of people they support and positions they espouse on broadcasts.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/16/media/fox-news-stars-executives-court-documents/index.html

” . . . the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie , , , It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think there may be some other explanation.” – Adolf Hitler