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From: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: Did Challenger happen?
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Date: 25 Aug 89 14:47:42 GMT
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In article <3687@helios.ee.lbl.gov> envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes:
>In article <17591@ut-emx.UUCP>, mentat@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett) writes:
>< In article <932@brazos.Rice.edu> wasg@diomedes.rice.edu (Eric
>Salituro) writes:
>< >Not at all, in fact a TV movie about the crew of Challenger is in production
>< >as we speak. They did some shooting here at JSC a couple of months ago.
>< Which only goes to show that Americans have extremely poor taste. :-)
>Make that "American television producers."

Nope.  All you can say about television *producers* is that they
have a demonstrably accurate perception of the tastes of television
*consumers*.  If it didn't sell, they wouldn't do it.

The "americans/poor taste" comment is of course a generalization,
but doesn't it wear you down seeing how accurate it is, by and large?

A slightly related comment:
I was doing a radio call-in show last week talking about Neptune, etc.
and a caller asked:  why go to Neptune, when you don't even know
anything about it, when you can find out something *definite* by
going to mars and checking out that face?

Argh...
-- 
Jeff Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)