Re: OT ' BBC N24 Shuttle landing commentary'

In message <13cmq95fsrpr962@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Graham Harvest <graham4352@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes

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"Zach" <whats@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Couldn't get my PC to connect to NASA TV for the landing of the
> Shuttle, so
> I watched the last bit on BBC News24
>
> Oh dear... forgot to turn the sound off.
>
> The 'Girl' news reader, kept on saying:
> 'although you can not tell from these pictures the shuttle is flying
> backwards and upside-down'
> This when it was about 5 minutes from landing and clearly wasn't
> upside
> down or backwards.
>
> She must a have read the NASA press release and not had any grasp of
> it.
>

I think she is just terminally clueless, the same 'presenter' has made
other Faux pars.

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>
> Where do the BBC get these bimbos.
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I think the producers probably find them under the bed sheets, well
how else could such a totally ignorant person get that sort after job
in broadcasting?!...

Where's Raymond Baxter when we need him !!
Passed on, sadly. :-( I think about him and his ilk a lot whenever science is being discussed on radio and TV.

What a shallow, superfluous,
superficial arty-farty world the media live in these days. Oh if only we
could get rid of these clueless people in the way Douglas Adams devised in
Hitch-hikers.
I've always thought that that was a truly excellent idea. But as a tour guide these days I suppose I'd be on the "B" Ship, too....... :-(
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