Flying Illini
Hit me Peter!
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I agree, they should apologize. How much money do you think that incident cost the small town police department?"I'm absolutely outraged that NBC News is out here trying to create news rather than report news," McDaniel said after meeting with members of the Transportation Security Administration. "This clearly scared the hell out of a lot of folks and wasted a lot of valuable resources, tying up emergency forces, and all of it was entirely unnecessary.
"If they wanted to learn about security, we'd have been happy to take them on a ride and show how it works," McDaniel said. Thomas said an apology was in order from NBC to her and everyone who was involved.
I like his first line, "I'm absolutely outraged that NBC News is out here trying to create news rather than report news," McDaniel said. And he should be!
I bet this will be a 30 minute special in which they spent 29 minutes talking about 1 or 2 airports that they "infiltrated" and 20 seconds mentioning/downplaying the ones in which they were caught. Isn't it illegal to yell "fire" in a crowded movie theater? I think this is the same thing. I wouldn't let this group of people go. It's like trying to buy alcohol underage, getting caught by the cops, then saying, "well, I'm with so and so, I go around testing gas stations to make sure they aren't selling to minors so you can let me go now...whatever. Give 'em a few nights in a "federal pound-you-in-the-@ss prison"NBC defended its actions in an e-mail statement to the Post-Dispatch, saying that the employees did nothing wrong in determining the security measures at helicopter charter services.
"Nothing they did or carried was illegal," said NBC spokesman Allison Gollust. "In Illinois, the system worked and ... our reporting will include this part of the story, evidence that civilians like those in Illinois are making attempts to keep the skies safe."