Not at all. The media are not allways to be blamed. Example: reports from Elke Pattyn (VTM) and Luk De Wilde are always accurate, just like when Staf De Lie (Het Nieuwsblad) reports about Antwerp (ANR). The problem with the Flemish media is that internet has caused that the sales of (paper) newspapers has decreased, with revenue from online adverts not compensating the loss. This has caused dismissals on editor's level, with Belga nowadays about the sole news supplier. Most articles there are written by "general news journalists", and they have to produce x articles each hour. They are not "willingly lying" as you state: they just don't have the time to write better articles.jan_olieslagers wrote:There is a lot of sensationalism there, how could there ever have been a catastrophe pending? If dispatchers have less reliable/precise tools, separation is increased. If dispatch/traffic control becomes impossible, the airspace is closed. Drastic, yes, and of course nobody would willingly do so. But safety has not at any single moment been endangered, for as far as I can observe.
Without wishing to enter into politics, I can only confirm the media are _not_ to be trusted. Not in matters of aviation, and why sould they be different on other subjects? They are either incompetent or willingly lying, I often suspect both at the same time.
Today's breaking news about the near-disaster from May 2015 is totally different. It's produced by a journo from the left-oriented newspaper De Morgen, assisting a few ATC's who wanted to blame Belgocontrol. Aim: to weaken the government's statement that there is no budget for investments and/or salary increases at Belgocontrol.