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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
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Subject: Re: Television coverage
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 09:49:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 09:49:34 1986
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> Let's remember one thing before everybody else starts flaming about
> the callous news coverage by the networks (ie, the "elation-to-tears"
> of the crowd, etc, etc, ad nauseum).
> 
> The ONLY video coming out from the launch site was NASA's official
> news feed.  So don't go blaming the networks for their supposed
> morbid curiosity of the crowd's bemoaning the loss of the Challenger.
> 
> 
> The New Number Who,	okamoto@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
> Jeff Okamoto		..!ucbvax!okamoto

You are forgetting one thing.  It was the callous news networks that were
responsible for showing the crowd's bemoaning the loss of the shuttle over and
over and over and over ......, not NASA.  At first it was news and then it was
a money maker for the networks.  This is just another case of irresponsible
journalism exercised so ofter by the American news media.  I am ashamed of them.

This reminds me of the nighttime soap opera that was on years ago called:     
America Held Hostage, Day N.  They call it Nightline now.
 
ray