Friday, November 29, 2013

C-o-o-o-o-l


I get a lot of "news" from CNN via my Ipad.  Some of the video news elements are a real testament to what the "news" has become.  We can just disregard that they stretch pretty far to find newsworthy items to report. That is a given in the Internet world.  But when the newscasters LOOK like adults, but talk like teenagers, I begin to wonder at their competency.

For example, I was watching a video clip about the comet ISON.   The young meteorologist giving the report must have used the word "cool" about 15 times during her broadcast.  If the reporter, self-proclaimed as educated to some extent in astronomy, can only use the word "cool" to describe a natural phenomenon, I wonder at her overall capability.
 
If I am made to wonder about the story's veracity due to the childish presentation of the "facts", what other information has been distorted that I am just missing?  Houston, I think we have a problem.


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