What Alan Said

As an aside, I rather imagine that Princes William and Harry would like to see the same thing with Paparazzi's motor bikes.

Ground those TV choppers
The senseless death of four helicopter newsmen in Phoenix underscores the stupidity and wastefulness of broadcasters who squander their precious resources on cheap chopper chases instead of more worthy pursuits.

This journalistically indefensible insanity must be stopped. If broadcasters won’t do it voluntarily, then the Federal Aviation Administration, acting on behalf of us innocents on the ground, ought to step in and do it for them.

So says Alan Mutter, and so say we all.

Helicopter footage of a car chase or a fire is not news, it's porn masquerading as news.