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Post by johnoakes on Jan 2, 2013 19:37:12 GMT 1
No mention of a reporter smuggling a gun on board---or was that Mcr? Getting sick of the Echo singling out problems at LJLA and not relating this to other airports to establish if LJLA is the norm or worse--or God --forbid better than other regional airports. still-- only sensationalism sells papers and I should be too old to rise to the bait. It just seems so cheap a shot.
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Post by ezylpl on Jan 2, 2013 20:33:26 GMT 1
It's just scaremongering by lazy jobsworth reporters. It's a complete load of rubbish.
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Post by maverick on Jan 3, 2013 0:05:36 GMT 1
May I suggest that if you, like me, feel strongly enough about this travesty of an article/report you complain to the Echo via either their letters page or e-mail the Editor directly. I have.
?? Editor@LiverpoolEcho.co.uk ?? Letter@LiverpoolEcho.co.uk
Maybe we need another paper 'banned' in Liverpool
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Post by johnoakes on Jan 3, 2013 7:30:10 GMT 1
Good idea Maverick--well done-- I shall follow your lead with this one.
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Post by vctr on Jan 3, 2013 7:50:04 GMT 1
Whilst I agree the news article is rubbish and not exactly positive, is it not better to just rise above it and rest in the knowledge that the article is just a page filler on a slow news day?
If we had every news source banned for being 'negative', might as well ban the lot of them, as they all survive on a majority of negative -vs- positive. Yes it seems unfair, and sometimes unbalanced, but life is too short to get riled up by a newspaper/tv article, its just what they do, bad news sells!
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Post by CloudWarrior on Jan 3, 2013 10:50:45 GMT 1
I thought it made good reading.
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Post by maverick on Jan 3, 2013 12:03:18 GMT 1
I thought it made good reading. I'd stick to your Beano if I were you mate.
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Post by steh on Jan 3, 2013 13:00:32 GMT 1
I think if you ignore the headline it makes interesting reading, but the headline and intro are a disgrace from a paper that is supposed to speak up for this city. I have just googled 'airport laser pen' and the first page came up with incidents at Bristol, Heathrow, Leeds/Bradford, Inverness and Southampton. Leeds/Bradford had 80 incidents in 2011 and 20 in the 1st 6 months of 2012, the Echo doesn't put that in as a comparison. When you look at the headline and then read the report, which states there was a closure due to an engine fire and a plane computer stopped working, how this is the airports fault is beyond me, but the Echo seems determined to do all it can to stop people using it.
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Post by LPL on Jan 3, 2013 14:16:01 GMT 1
We should see people challenge the Echo and the article should compare other UK airports with Liverpool.
As the last post states the Echo, and some individuals with obvious agendas, are hell bent on the course to put people off bringing money into our local economy with the consequential loss of jobs and wealth.
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Post by baldyman26 on Jan 3, 2013 14:30:30 GMT 1
All points are good.
Lets not forget, the Echo is a Liverpool paper, reporting Liverpool Airport. The laser pen thing is nothing new as stated by steh, and has been reported on BBC News for other locations, aircraft coming in to fast is a problem with an airline not an airport, the fire service entering the runway without permission is serious and should be reported and dealt with. I think People are being a bit touchy on this one... The Echo have been out of order in the past and should be told when , but I think these incidents are in the public interest. To me it hasn't (for once) been written badly, and Liverpool Airport have written a fare comment to the incidents.
Don't make a mountain out of a mole hill.
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Post by maverick on Jan 3, 2013 14:48:07 GMT 1
All points are good. ..and Liverpool Airport have written a fare comment to the incidents.. The Airport response quote was lifted from a previous response to a similar article last March. Lazy journalism of the worst kind.
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Post by baldyman26 on Jan 3, 2013 17:44:40 GMT 1
All points are good. ..and Liverpool Airport have written a fare comment to the incidents.. The Airport response quote was lifted from a previous response to a similar article last March. Lazy journalism of the worst kind. Or that's the airport's standard response, thus giving the impression that they really aren't that bothered about the story. The airport are welcome to also write a response in the letters column as Mersey travel regularly do when they are upset about something. As far as I am aware they don't, so take the story as a pinch of salt and as an earlier post says, a page filler on a quiet day. The same would apply to Manchester should the MEN if they had a quiet day.. It is only everything that is in the public domain anyway.
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Post by LPL on Jan 3, 2013 17:55:34 GMT 1
The same would apply to Manchester should the MEN if they had a quiet day.. It is only everything that is in the public domain anyway. So if its all so easy to get the info why then are the incidents not compared with other airports around the UK?
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Post by baldyman26 on Jan 4, 2013 11:00:23 GMT 1
I presume because it's a Liverpool paper. I suppose if it was one of the Nationals then yes, we would have something to shout about, but it's a Liverpool paper reporting about Liverpool Airport. Like I say, if the Airport were that bothered I'm sure the response would've been more in depth. Remember the incident of the boy managing to board a jet 2 from Manchester, or the wanted man who was to be arrested on arrival at Manchester but escaped through an open door. Serious security lapses that have been forgotten about, as will this piece in the Echo, as was this one in it's sister paper .. www.birminghampost.net/news/2012/04/11/laser-pen-attacks-at-birmingham-airport-have-trebled-97319-30740152/
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Post by vctr on Jan 4, 2013 13:34:43 GMT 1
Remember the incident of the boy managing to board a jet 2 from Manchester, ...... Serious security lapses that have been forgotten about
But the one about the boy at MAN was broadcast worldwide, so pretty much full blown bad publicity, not a 2-bit piece filling a page in the local rag, so what more do you want or expect? The story to be re-hashed every month as a reminder?
Seems people are taking this article far too seriously. It is a Liverpool paper reporting on a Liverpool story, assumingly printed as the info has just been released by the CAA in some form of annual report.
In terms of 'turning away business due to bad stories', it seems the only people who have taken notice of the story are LPL enthusiasts. One would hope that any other adult looking to book a flight will read the story, but then realise 99.9% of all other flights ex-LPL seem to take off/land without incident, and then also realise they are old enough to make their own assumptions and mind up as to whether to book a flight or not, regardless of what a small non-story in the local rag says.
Yes its a naff story, yes its frustrating that there seems to be more bad news reported than good, but its what most news corporations do. Bad news and sensationalism sells. Unfortunately the days of selling stories based on 'fluffy kittens rescued from trees' are long gone. Terror and doom is the driving force for the news these days.
Just my 2 cents.
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