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Originally Posted by 4444
jesus christ! with all this what seems to be legit news and then denial, we almost need a list of what is 'officially confirmed' and what is just rubbish.
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I think the only thing that's "officially confirmed" so far is that the plane is missing and nobody has the first fucking clue what happened to it.
The problem with issuing any sort of "official statement" is that the media (including social) will jump all over it and extrapolate all sorts of stories based on things they know nothing about, then when something changes that contradicts anything people think they already "know", it's played out as officials either being incompetent, or covering something up.
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now there's talk about those chinese images from yesterday being nothing... the word that sums up this whole situation is definitely 'unprecedented' - but i would also like to say, i think someone somewhere is fucking up big time, either something related to the plane or with the search effort - it just seems so poorly organized. well, given it's unprecedented, i'll allow some leeway, but still, how have we not found the craft yet?
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Consider their position: they're dealing with something that's never happened before in exactly this way - in decades of commercial air travel, millions if not billions of flights, and thousands of crashes, never has a plain simply disappeared without a trace this way.
But instead of letting experts and authorities just sit back and try to figure it all out, they have to fend off media, armchair (or office chair) quarterbacks, looky-loos of all sorts... and then they have to address all manner of speculation and rumours constantly being circulated as fact. Someone overhears something, tells his buddy, who tells his buddy who's a reporter, and next thing you know, something completely imagined is being splashed across the headlines.
The main ones fucking up, frankly, are the rubberneckers who keep confusing things with sketchy information.