Irresponsible

It's one thing to rerun wire copy as is. It's another thing to rerun it when THERE ARE MISTAKES IN THAT STORY.

Case in point...the News & Record just posted a story from the Charlotte Observer (via the AP) to its online site about a "go-around" at Charlotte-Douglas Intl. Airport yesterday. The airline involved was "America West."

Trouble is...that airline NO LONGER EXISTS!

(I should know...I work for this company)

Someone tell John Robinson it's US Airways now. But the comments that poor old Charlotte Observer reporter is receiving are ruthless.

An example:

Sensational journalism at it's best. Is it any wonder that the Observer has become so irrelevant with such reporting as Mr. Perlmutt displayed? Let's look at a couple of irresponsible pieces from this article, that earned a front page, bold letter headline. -Fact check - "America West flight 1525... America West is a part of US Airways." As mentioned in a previous posting, the individual operating certificates of AWA and US are no more. It is now only US. You might be able to find an old AWA employees still wearing an AWA uniform, but that's it. Don't rely on outdated flight tracker websites that may still show old AWA info. - From your own source, Kathleen Bergen, an FAA spokeswoman in Atlanta, "These ‘go-around' procedures are not uncommon", "At Charlotte/Douglas, you probably have one or two ‘go-arounds' a day", "It's a safety procedure", "There was no danger".
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Could this wire copy not have been checked...and edited first?

E.C. :)