20 Feb
2003
20 Feb
'03
5:29 a.m.
It never made it to CNN or MSNBC.
MSNBC's web site also altered a story the other day regarding Osama bin
Ladin and Iraq. The first release made mention that bin Ladin was calling
his people to kill Hussein. Then, when the US held a press briefing on
the same topic, and tried to make it sound as if bin Ladin was in cahoots
with Hussein, MSNBC suddenly altered their story, removing the reference.
No explination to the change. Could have been an error, could have been
an oversite, could have been a request by someone... could have been
anything. Point is, the story took a change to reflect the US governments
desired position on the topic, and they just pretened it had always been
that way.
Humm... does Winston Smith work for MSNBC?
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
20 Feb
20 Feb
8:08 a.m.
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
chris wrote:
It never made
it to CNN or MSNBC.
MSNBC's web site also altered a story the other day regarding Osama bin
Ladin and Iraq. The first release made mention that bin Ladin was calling
his people to kill Hussein. Then, when the US held a press briefing on
the same topic, and tried to make it sound as if bin Ladin was in cahoots
with Hussein, MSNBC suddenly altered their story, removing the reference.
No explination to the change. Could have been an error, could have been
an oversite, could have been a request by someone... could have been
anything. Point is, the story took a change to reflect the US governments
desired position on the topic, and they just pretened it had always been
that way.
Humm... does Winston Smith work for MSNBC?
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
. 
11:43 a.m.
Hi,
I remember in the days after the space shuttle accident, I saw
on CNN, that they were displaying how many times faster than
the speed of light that the space shuttle was going. Yes, they
actually said speed of light. And I was surprised at how long
they let it run like that before it was removed, hours at least.
Just shows you can't believe everything you read, see on TV, etc.
I was also surprised I never heard anyone else mentioning it.
Best Regards
At 02:25 PM 2/20/03 -0500, you wrote:
It never made
it to CNN or MSNBC.
MSNBC's web site also altered a story the other day regarding Osama bin
Ladin and Iraq. The first release made mention that bin Ladin was calling
his people to kill Hussein. Then, when the US held a press briefing on
the same topic, and tried to make it sound as if bin Ladin was in cahoots
with Hussein, MSNBC suddenly altered their story, removing the reference.
No explination to the change. Could have been an error, could have been
an oversite, could have been a request by someone... could have been
anything. Point is, the story took a change to reflect the US governments
desired position on the topic, and they just pretened it had always been
that way.
Humm... does Winston Smith work for MSNBC?
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net> 
4:05 p.m.
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Mail List wrote:
Hi,
I remember in the days after the space shuttle accident, I saw
on CNN, that they were displaying how many times faster than
the speed of light that the space shuttle was going. Yes, they
actually said speed of light. And I was surprised at how long
they let it run like that before it was removed, hours at least.
Just shows you can't believe everything you read, see on TV, etc.
I was also surprised I never heard anyone else mentioning it.
Unfortunately, you see increasing numbers of errors/misstatements
like that these days. Proofreading is becoming a lost art. It is
only successfully done by humans and they tend to be rather
expensive. As a consequence, newspapers and other printed media
are full of misused words - albeit correctly spelled - and not so
good grammar. I think that is what you witnessed, also.
- don
Best Regards
At 02:25 PM 2/20/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >It never made it to CNN or MSNBC.
>
>MSNBC's web site also altered a story the other day regarding Osama bin
>Ladin and Iraq. The first release made mention that bin Ladin was calling
>his people to kill Hussein. Then, when the US held a press briefing on
>the same topic, and tried to make it sound as if bin Ladin was in cahoots
>with Hussein, MSNBC suddenly altered their story, removing the reference.
>
>No explination to the change. Could have been an error, could have been
>an oversite, could have been a request by someone... could have been
>anything. Point is, the story took a change to reflect the US governments
>desired position on the topic, and they just pretened it had always been
>that way.
>
>Humm... does Winston Smith work for MSNBC?
>
>-chris
><http://www.mythtech.net>
11:05 p.m.
At 10:01 PM 2/20/03 -0800, you wrote:
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Mail List wrote:
It also goes to show what total idiots the news spokesmen are. They miss even the most
blatant errors. As far as I'm concerned if they can make such monumental mistakes and
not realize it then I don't believe a word that they say. There are still some good
REPORTERS out there that auctual research and report on news events and know what
they're talking about but most or all of the ones on TV are picked for their looks and
not brains!
Joe
Hi,
I remember in the days after the space shuttle accident, I saw
on CNN, that they were displaying how many times faster than
the speed of light that the space shuttle was going. Yes, they
actually said speed of light. And I was surprised at how long
they let it run like that before it was removed, hours at least.
Just shows you can't believe everything you read, see on TV, etc.
I was also surprised I never heard anyone else mentioning it.
Unfortunately, you see increasing numbers of errors/misstatements
like that these days. Proofreading is becoming a lost art.
21 Feb
21 Feb
12:57 a.m.
Hi Joe,
all of the ones on TV are picked for their looks and
not brains!
They would also be picked for their speaking ability, vocal tonal
qualities, lack of accents for a regionally neutral, and therefore
nationally accepted manner of speaking, though some of these
features they might also have trained for. I really don't think you
would find any national news anchor to be anything less than of
significantly above average intelligence.
But in this digital mixing age, the reporter may never have been
looking at what the viewers were being presented. They may have
been looking at a tele-prompter, or some other special in-house
signal specifically for their use to help do their portion.
The mistake probably should have been caught first by whoever
prepared the background material, then by those that prepared
that into the display overlay, then by those who were doing the
mixing, and then by someone else who actually might monitor
the final output results.
Did anyone, other than myself, see that?
Best Regards
At 08:01 AM 2/21/03 +0000, you wrote:
At 10:01 PM 2/20/03 -0800, you wrote:
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Mail List wrote:
It also goes to show what total idiots the news spokesmen are. They
miss even the most blatant errors. As far as I'm concerned if they can
make such monumental mistakes and not realize it then I don't believe a
word that they say. There are still some good REPORTERS out there that
auctual research and report on news events and know what they're talking
about but most or all of the ones on TV are picked for their looks and
not brains!
Joe Hi,
I remember in the days after the space shuttle accident, I saw
on CNN, that they were displaying how many times faster than
the speed of light that the space shuttle was going. Yes, they
actually said speed of light. And I was surprised at how long
they let it run like that before it was removed, hours at least.
Just shows you can't believe everything you read, see on TV, etc.
I was also surprised I never heard anyone else mentioning it.
Unfortunately, you see increasing numbers of errors/misstatements
like that these days. Proofreading is becoming a lost art. 
4 Mar
4 Mar
2:59 a.m.
New subject: Measurements (was: Let the witch trials begin! )
> I remember in the days after the space shuttle
accident, I saw
> on CNN, that they were displaying how many times faster than
> the speed of light that the space shuttle was going. Yes, they
> actually said speed of light. And I was surprised at how long
> they let it run like that before it was removed, hours at least.
> Just shows you can't believe everything you
read, see on TV, etc.
> I was also surprised I never heard anyone else
mentioning it.
Unfortunately, you see increasing numbers of
errors/misstatements
like that these days. Proofreading is becoming a lost art. It is
only successfully done by humans and they tend to be rather
expensive. As a consequence, newspapers and other printed media
are full of misused words - albeit correctly spelled - and not so
good grammar. I think that is what you witnessed, also.
Well, I found the whole confusion with measurements at that
day quite amuseing. For example, the height, where the shuttle
broke apart, was given by nasa in Meter, and thus displayed
as such. Now comentators did try to convert this into miles
or feet and came up with a quite variey of results - from a
mere 60,000 ft, up to 90 miles ... Even more, the cation moved
at some poit to a total senseless amount of feet, back to kilometer,
and later on to miles of course evvery time with quite some
truncation.
Another light to the logic/arithmetic functionality of news
people was the repeted mention that the wreckage was spilled
out over 'several hundret square miles' ... at a time when
the charts already showed a trail of way more than 500 miles.
Every 3ed class scool kid should come to the conclusion that
even several ten thousand is not to high...
Anyway.
H.
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