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All of the newscasts covered the take-your-child-to-work air traffic controler whose son was caught on audiotape giving instructions to jetliner pilots on the runway at JFK Airport. All three seemed tone deaf. ABC's Lisa Stark quoted John Nance, her network's in-house aviation analyst, tut-tutting: "It is simply not permissible." CBS' Sharyl Attkisson worried that the boy's words were inaudible. Instead of smiling about the harmless safety violation in a breezy, whimsical closer, all three newscasts treated the boy's excellent adventure with furrowed brows, assigning the stunt to their hard-news lead segments. At least NBC's Tom Costello captured the right tone in a jocular soundbite from a 20-year veteran pilot: "Nothing happened to the planes that took off. I do not see a problem with that at all." NBC's Costello, by the way, did the right thing, crediting LiveATC.net with discovering the young boy's voice.
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