Damn, I’ve been on the Alaska Airlines flight that lost pressurization. That’d be interesting enough, but a citizen journalist covered the whole thing on his blog and with a cell phone camera. Details on Memeorandum (link 1, link 2). KomoTV has video from inside the plane shot by passengers. Wild. Every disaster now will be covered in real time by people involved.
The comments, though, don’t make me feel all that great. Where’s Mena Trott when you need her?
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December 28th, 2005 at 5:06 pm
To cuss out someone (twice), whilst on a speech about civility? Ironic, no? :)
December 28th, 2005 at 5:40 pm
The PR Issue Behind Alaska Airlines Decompression
While others want to jump on the “citizen journalism” train - woohoo - the other story here for PR professionals (and bloggers) is that Alaska Airlines employees have gone nasty-comment-happy on Jeremy’s blog.
December 28th, 2005 at 7:33 pm
Alaska Airlines IP addresses … kind of reminds me of my incident with CompUSA and I got a call from someone claiming to be a reporter from The Tacoma News Tribune. Turns out it was all a lie.
Smart for Jeremy to check the IP addresses of those negative comments. MSM should run a story and realize tha with an IP address much can be learned these days …
December 28th, 2005 at 11:08 pm
Ever since Alaska laid off all their ground crew and farmed it out their overall fight operations have gone downhill. Severe flight delays, interminable waits for baggage claim. It’s no surprise that something like this eventually happened. Sad, really, since they used to be a great airline.
December 28th, 2005 at 11:09 pm
er… what the hell is a “citizen journalist” other than a redundant term? How many journalists in this country are non-citizens?
December 29th, 2005 at 12:27 am
[...] If ever there was a case of relevance deprivation syndrome, and a really, really pathetic and sad one at that, its Robert Scoble, who instead of pointing out that a Jeremy Hermanns, one of the chaps behind Blogebrity, was on the Alaskan Airlines plane that had the emergency landing and blogged about it with pictures, he refers to the incident by saying…. I’ve been on that plane Damn, I’ve been on the Alaska Airlines flight that lost pressurization. [...]
December 29th, 2005 at 12:58 am
Scoble, what a far-reaching attempt to associate yourself with a news event.
I fly the same Boston/LAX route that was used during 9/11, but I’d never even think of putting “I’ve been on that plane…” into a story.
Geez, slow workday at MS?
December 29th, 2005 at 8:49 am
Ladies and gentlemen, its blogging reduced to vanity publishing… aka “I have an opinion and dammit it shall be heard…”
December 29th, 2005 at 10:34 am
I think maybe the stress of carrying Scoble’s ego proved too much for the airplane’s fuselage.
December 29th, 2005 at 11:23 am
Oh, geez. My ego is suffering such damage here. I think it has a hole in it. Marrrryyyaaammm, they are picking on me again! ;-)
December 29th, 2005 at 6:34 pm
[...] もう一人乗り合わせていた blogger とは、これが大笑いなのだが、いや笑ってはいけないのだが、Robert Scoble だった。彼も Scobleizer で記事を書いているが、こちらは「怖かった」と書くのがやっとで、さすがに本業にはかなわないと言うか、当事者なら誰でも立派な記事を書けるわけではないと言うことか。Blog Herald にも Scoble suffers relevance deprivation syndrome over Alaskan Airlines emergency とからかわれている。 [...]