Among the challenges of writing and producing a publication for a global market is, first, to make that publication fit the market, speaking from a global perspective, presenting global news. That, we at Flight Safety Foundation believe, is our mission and our obligation.
The second challenge is to deal with charges that the publication has a regional bias, dominated by information from and for that region. Those two issues have been part of my life for more than 31 years now, first with an airline business publication, and now with AeroSafety World.
That regional bias charge starts easily enough; just note the location of the publication’s editorial office and, presto, you’re there. Some publications have tried “neutral” sites as editorial headquarters, yet still get tarred with that regional brush, just a different region. There’s no way to avoid this part of the problem.
The amount of information coming from any region alters the reporting balance. For al…
