Stupid Stupid Stupid - the Daily Telegraph

Oh, the English media are idiots. Especially the Daily Telgraph. With most tabloids (mirror, sun etc) everyone knows they print utter crap, and treats the reporting accrodingly. The 'grpah, on the other hand, pretends to be a real news outlet, which, unfortunately it is not.

Today, in order to try and create some controversy out of nothing, the 'graph is dropping the suggestion that a bomb "might have" been the cause of the Air France crash earlier this week. Here's their justification for printing this tripe:

One anonymous Air France pilot suggested that a bomb could "very well" be the cause of the crash. He said: "One can very well imagine that a bomb caused the aircraft's depressurisation and that the plane took time to break up. It could just as well have been a big bomb that blew up the entire plane, which would explain why the aircraft didn't have time to send an alert signal."

An "anonymous" Air France pilot makes a non-commital comment that the Telegrpah decides to report as somehow contributing to the 'news'....! Oh my! What superb journalism. Come on babay light my fire, my sarcasm couldn't get much higher.

With almost every body that knows a thing or two abour aeroplanes saying that the weather conditions were the most likley cause, the telegraph hunts for a headline by pointing out some minor detail to try and get readers in. Granted, the bulk of the actual story demsontrates fairly clearly that a 'bomb' type explosion is highly unlikely, what frustrates me is the desparate craving for readers that the story's headline suggests.

I should say Oi, telegraph! No!