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From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
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Subject: Re: Shuttle Coverage on Cable News Network
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 10:54:07 EDT
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> I have heard that CNN (Cable News Network) provided extended, or even
> continuous coverage of shuttle flights, but as yet I haven't seen any
> more than the ten or twenty seconds that the standard networks
> provide. 

CNN did a really fine job on the satellite rescue mission;  there were
solid hours of nothing but the shuttle.  Unfortunatley, CNN now seems
to have adopted the prevailing view that only "firsts" are important.
Their coverage of the last two missions has been better than the major
networks only in that CNN runs all day long, so you get the opportunity
to see the twenty second slot twelve times instead of twice.

I long for the days of my youth, when the entire country sat on the 
edge of its seat (figuratively speaking) for the entire duration of
an Apollo mission.  Forget this crock about the declining newsworthy-
ness of space being an indicator of how commonplace it has become -- 
I still find it fascinating and wish the media paid more attention!


Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

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