NY Times Downplays Pilot Error In Deadly DC Crash To Push Preferred Narrative
27th April 2025
An article headlined “Missteps, Equipment Problems and a Common but Risky Practice Led to a Fatal Crash,” which is about January’s devastating crash at Reagan National Airport, is a textbook example of mainstream media malpractice.
An honest headline would have read, “Helicopter Pilot Ignored Multiple Safety Warnings Before Fatal Crash.”
The liberal paper of record spent roughly a thousand words dancing around the obvious truth: a helicopter pilot directly caused this tragedy by ignoring multiple explicit warnings.
But that wouldn’t fit their preferred story about “systemic failures,” would it?
Whenever a woman accomplishes something, it’s always “Aren’t women great? They’re just as great as men!” Whenever a woman screws something up, it’s “Well, it could have happened to anybody.”