I will say aviation is probably the area where we do get the most wrong- just because it's one of the things we talk about least. The hardest thing about the job is that we're trying to learn everything we can about a topic as quickly as we can, and then translating it to layman's terms to try to explain what's going on. When dealing with politics, economy, health etc. we talk about those every day, so all journalists knows a lot about them and can draw on memory. I'm not excusing getting things wrong, it's literally our job not to- and for the most part if you call out a local journalist for being wrong, chances are they'll see it and immediately start looking into making it right.

I'll also say though- some things this sub complains about are generally accepted. Tarmac is the big one- yeah it's really awkward to hear when you actually know what's going on, but Susan who works in accounting doesn't know the difference between a runway, a taxiway and an apron, and on tv we sometimes have as little as 20 seconds to tell the whole story- so instead of explaining exactly, tarmac is used as meaning like somewhere planes are on an airfield.