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From: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak)
Newsgroups: net.space,net.columbia
Subject: Re: Television coverage
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 15:09:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 15:09:32 1986
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Reply-To: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak)
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> 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.
>
> Jeff Okamoto          ..!ucbvax!okamoto
>

   Nope!  It was the networks morbid sense of what is news that is at fault,
not NASA.  From TIME 10 Feb 1986, page 42:

        Some viewers were offended at the oft-repeated shots that
        had been taped by WNEV-TV in Boston of School-teacher
        Christa McAuliffe's parents viewing the launch at the
        Kennedy Space Center.

  So don't go blaming NASA when it's the media's fault.

        Al ALgustyniak