RE: [OT] Columbia

At 2:40 PM -0800 2/2/03, Michael Brown wrote:
><Rant>
>Remember the days when if Newscasters had no information they would say
"we
>don't have any details right now, stay tuned for further developments".
 Is a
>frontal lobotomy a pre-requisite for being a talking head on CNN?
>
></Rant>

It depends on what the anchor is being given for material to read or 
whether he's flying by the seat of his/her pants. They aren't rocket 
scientists, they're news anchors. They don't spend time reading 
technical journals. I've tried what I can to educate some of them on 
particular things. (Just what a .223 bullet looks like and why its 
not "high powered", Daryn in this case)

Ryan, CNN.com Data Center manager.
I don't speak for CNN, nor they for me.
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