CoolP wrote on Jul 28^th, 2011 at 5:49am:

boeing247, please don't follow a train which I'm not riding. Instead, e. g. follow my media examples by using the sites mentioned and you will see the headlines in the top 3 of e. g. Google News. I didn't pick them with a bias, but randomly. First search word was A380, second was 747. What I wanted to show? That the simple picking of news and headlines forms up the perception on the reader's end which sometimes isn't related to the real picture at all. My second paragraph additionally showed that reading the headline alone may form up a wrong picture while the article itself holds a completely different one. Test yourself, your impression seems to be that e. g. the A380 makes aviation news these days. Does it? With a simple and open search? I doubt. But from this thread, it actually does and it even forms an overlay over some deaths with other planes which you didn't know about because nobody around mentioned it. Caught my point with the 'picking powers'? Now, as you may recall, even well before the news picking another aspect forms up opinions since newspapers actually report stuff with the big outcome only. Regarding the solved RR engine case on the A380, there wasn't a real media echo, but only a small article. Not much to pick in the sensational view if things turn out .. boring.

CoolP, that post was not really directed at you. It was just that what you had been saying gave me an opportunity to say some things that I'd wanted to say for awhile.  :)

Oh, and the original post by Lou that sparked this doesn't, in my opinion, reflect any shortcoming of the plane. That was all pilot error.