Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
Not fake news. A few inaccurate details, but very much actual news.
"Fake news" is a popular buzzword today, but like most popular buzzwords, often inaccurately used.
The event in this case did occur, action was taken, and the matter is under investigation. Witness statements were included. ATC advised of traffic and did what they're supposed to do; separate IFR from IfR and IFR from VFR.
Three minor errors does not make it fake news.
It was a routine event: a traffic point out and visual acquisition of said traffic. Taking something unworthy of reporting and sensationalizing it with fallacies is a version of fake news. Absent any other information, viewers who watched that story will come away from it with a version of the "event" (or lack thereof) nowhere close to reality.