There are a lot of issues here, including the role of the media and how the output of a single stringer with a an international agency can create the accepted history of events, which may be partial or outright inaccurate. This may also be a case where events have been distorted to fit a preconceived agenda, either on the reporter's initiative or through him innocently reporting the approach taken by the prosecutor/judges.
Agenda driven news becomes possible when the global media come to rely on a single source agency, so it is republished a million times, instantly fitting Lenin's dictum, that a lie repeated often enough will be believed.
On a more practical level, the incident raises questions about the interchangable fuel gauges - which hopefully have been all been modified by now - the technical competence of the airline and the nature of the Italian judicial system.
There are a lot of issues here, including the role of the media and how the output of a single stringer with a an international agency can create the accepted history of events, which may be partial or outright inaccurate. This may also be a case where events have been distorted to fit a preconceived agenda, either on the reporter's initiative or through him innocently reporting the approach taken by the prosecutor/judges.
Agenda driven news becomes possible when the global media come to rely on a single source agency, so it is republished a million times, instantly fitting Lenin's dictum, that a lie repeated often enough will be believed.
On a more practical level, the incident raises questions about the interchangable fuel gauges - which hopefully have been all been modified by now - the technical competence of the airline and the nature of the Italian judicial system.