Great idea. Start with the local newspaper, though, because that's where TV folks get most of their news from.
You know what would be great? I know a lot of airport folks get together on Saturday mornings for breakfast at a hangar. Invite a reporter out to that and hang out.
Some years ago, I met a bunch of EAAers at Lake Elmo (St. Paul). It was right after 9/11. Even though I am a pilot and knew the issues, the result still put forward not only a good story, but ideas for other stories.
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.or...roundedpilots/
Reporters, generally, aren't stupid people and the us-against-them attitude only fuels the problem that people complain about in the first place. Just don't ask -- or expect -- them to do stories that ignore reality...like owning an airplane isn't primarily the domain of the comparatively affluent. Or that there's some big economic engine that your basic out-of-the way GA airport provides that can't be replaced by a bunch of houses or an industrial park.
The trick is to prevent having to provide THAT story in the first place, because if you do, you're on the defensive and there's no reason to have it get to that.
Airports are great places with lots of different and interesting people and lots of individual neat stories to tell. People are out there restoring aircraft with their own history to tell. Why from what I hear, people are even BUILDING THEIR OWN AIRPLANES!!!!
As anybody who's ever tried to get an EAA chapter to provide things to the chapter newsletter knows, pilots are woefully inept at telling their own stories because they think they're not interesting or important.
They're wrong.
This is such BS!!!
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