captjns

Sad to say but true. Back in the day, both stations did not subscribe to hiring mindless voice activated airheads who could not pronounce their own names without a tele-prompter.

Well at least there's BBC World News.

DYNASTY HVY

The tourist at the beach who asked another tourist who had Connecticut plates if he was from Connecticut.
I miss champagne and peanuts in coach.

ASAnotASAP

I've driven plenty of rental cars with out-of-state plates.
I second the champagne!

DYNASTY HVY

I have also and just found it a bit funny .

Doug Masters

I don't watch TV, I get all my news here on APC.

forgot to bid

BBC has their bias too.

forgot to bid

Flight 370: Mississauga simulator pilot fired for ‘dressing like a teenager’ on CNN
Margie Mason
7 hours ago

A Canadian flight simulator business fired an instructor who figured prominently in CNN's coverage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, saying he showed up late to his regular job and "shamed Canadians" by dressing like a teenager.

uFly company owner Claudio Teixeira said he fired Mitchell Casado on Wednesday in part for refusing to dress professionally and making Canadians "look very bad all over the world."

Casado's relaxed style of jeans and plaid shirts attracted wide attention during CNN's constant coverage of the search for the missing flight. CNN's Martin Savidge and Casado logged many hours reporting from the fake cockpit located at the company's office near Toronto's international airport. The company has a simulator the same model as the lost plane.

Teixeira said Casado didn't come to work Tuesday when customers had the simulator booked. "This is not the first time. He's been warned before," he told The Associated Press.

Teixeira says he received many email complaints about the instructor's way of dressing during the time he appeared on CNN.

"Even though I let him be on TV, he shamed us Canadians and shamed my company with the way he was dressing like he was 15 years old," he said. "People were complaining that it wasn't professional at all. . . If you go to any plane you don't see them in shorts and sandals."

Casado declined to comment when reached by AP, saying "I'm not interested in talking to you."

In a tweet earlier, Casado wrote: "My boss had me training a new guy the last few days, and now that he can do my job, and CNN left, he fired me. That's Ufly."

CNN spokeswoman Bridget Leininger noted Casado is an employee of uFLY, not CNN. She said CNN will not broadcast from the simulator on Thursday but may do so in the future.

Savidge and Casado spent 12- to18-hour days in the cockpit, using the machine to simulate what might happen under certain scenarios. They logged so much airtime reporting from the fake cockpit that the hashtag #freemartinsavidge appeared on Twitter.

LloydC

Sink r8

The person who tries to inject politics into the TOTD thread.

ShyGuy

????? Could have been a rental. I've been in Ohio in a car with Florida plates. Doesn't mean I'm from Florida.