The Today Show led with a hyper-concerned report about some air traffic controller who let his or her kid talk to the pilot a half-dozen times. The kid did it pretty much perfectly, repeating exactly what his parent told him to say. The pilots all thought it was fine and cute, at least going by their reactions. I understand why the FAA needs to have rules against this sort of thing, and the kid’s parent shouldn’t have done it. But I just can’t get a fraction as worked up about it as the gang on The Today Show. You’d think this was Balloon Boy Part Deux or something. Even the overwrought correspondent admitted no one was in any danger. Just going by how the press seems to be heading into a relative feeding frenzy, you know there are going to be firings and reports and all the rest. It’s overkill, if you ask me. Someone took their kid to work and it worked out fine — until the This Should Never Happen Brigade got involved.

Update: Here’s the story.