Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!umd5!don From: don@umd5.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: RE: The Press (parasites) Message-ID: <865@umd5.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 13:28:44 EST Article-I.D.: umd5.865 Posted: Mon Feb 10 13:28:44 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Feb-86 19:27:21 EST References: <185@sivax.UUCP> <106@sx7000.UUCP> Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md Lines: 24 > . > . > It was a terrible thing, but the media went crazy. They > did more than just inform us. By 12 noon the day it happened I'm sure > everyone in North America heard of what had happened. But for the next > 3 days all that was on TV was about the shuttle. No new news except that > there was no new news. But they had to boost their ratings "More on > the Challenger at 5". It was as bad as the summit meetings! I saw no mention by the press about all the people who, upon hearing the news about Challenger, drove with their headlights on in memoriam of the seven astronauts. I don't think this public response was restricted to the Washington, DC area ... or was it ? -- --==---==---==-- "beware the fruminous Bandersnatch" ARPA: don@umd5.UMD.EDU BITNET: don%umd5@umd2 UUCP: ..!{ seismo!umcp-cs, ihnp4!rlgvax }!cvl!umd5!don (NOTE: Please mail to umcp-cs!cvl!umd5!don NOT umd5!cvl!umcp-cs!don) umcp-cs ::= mimsy.UMD.EDU | maryland.ARPA | umcp-cs.UUCP