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From: mac@allegra.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: TV news mangling (flame!)
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Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 10:00:59 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  9 10:00:59 1983
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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	I also object to the way ABC handled the Shuttle story for the
	rest of last night - in those obnoxious little news promos that
	they run between programs, they kept saying "Malfunction delays
	Shuttle landing...details at 11".  If I had come home late and
	relied on these bozos for my news, I would have assumed that the
	Shuttle hadn't landed yet!  At least CBS was showing a scene of
	the landing in their "newsbreaks".

	Also, the ABC people said the problem was with "a navigational
	device".  I heard John Young clearly say that he had a problem
	with one of the IMU's.  According to my shuttle operator's 
	handbook, the IMU controls are on the same panel with the
	atmospheric (life support) controls.  What IS an IMU?
	Is it life support or navigation?

	Jim McParland
	AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
	allegra!mac