Space junk. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,272212,00.html Carl Esparza IMCA 5829
---- meteorh...@aol.com wrote: > All, > > In my last post, I failed to tie the first point together with the second. > > > Sometimes experts actually do get it right, but the members media of the > media are the ones that twist it and make it wrong with misquotes. > > There is a story today in the Wichita paper (at least online) with a > mistake in it, saying Geoff helped me dig up the big 1,430 pound Brenham 3 > 1/2 > years ago. While Geoff did show up a couple of days later, and was > instrumental in helping us get the word out to the media about the Main Mass > find, > he wasn't there when it was dug up, Phil Mani was. > > Who knows how that mistake happened? Neither Geoff or I said that to the > reporter. She didn't pull that from an earlier story she wrote. Go figure? > > But now that it is in print, others will probably run with the "fact" in > future stories. > > The poor Fire Chief at Monahans still has the stigma of taking the > meteorite away from the boys that found it because an AP reporter stated it > as > fact. We all know it was the Police Chief of Monahans that confiscated the > rock without the due process of law. > > "Little mistake" some will say. "Not a big deal" others would say. > "Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story" still others would > argue. > > It might be a big deal to the Fire Chief, or to Phil Mani, or to any of > the other BILLIONS of people who would like to be able to believe that facts > stated in the media are true as stated. > > If editors would edit, or if reporters would run a story buy the quoted > person to fact check before it goes to print, mistakes could be avoided. > > But, deadlines have to be met. The next story has to be started. Ads > have to be sold. > > It is life in the news media world. > > One day soon we won't have newspapers anymore. It will all be online. > And mistakes will be able to be corrected in short order. > > Until then, we suffer, and do the best we can with what we've got. > > Steve Arnold > > > > > In a message dated 5/8/2009 12:02:27 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > meteorh...@aol.com writes: > In a message dated 5/8/2009 11:25:52 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > meteoritem...@gmail.com writes: > I just don't understand how any "expert" could be fooled by that > object in the first place. > > MikeG, > > It happens ALL the time. And reporter "experts" are sometimes the worst. > I don't know how reporters can mess up simple facts. If it was > political, > it stands to reason why a reporter would error ALL the time in favor of > their candidate or topic, but something as benign as meteorites, and they > still mess things up. > > We should have a media "Hall of Shame" website devoted to chronicling all > the meteorite mistakes as they happen! > > Here is the scenario: > > Geologist at the nearest Junior College gets a call from a reporter with > the "facts": "Man has hole in his roof, with a metal rock on the floor > under the hole. Fairly certain it is a meteorite, what do you think?" > Expert, > walking between classes he is teaching: "Does a magnet stick to this so > called 'meteorite'?" Reporter: "Yes, strongly." > > Expert, choking on his coffee: "Sounds like it is the real deal, can I > see > it?" > > With TV cameras rolling, 2 hours later the expert arrives at the scene, > with fresh images of meteorites in his head that he found on Google just > before he headed out of the office, he is handed the object and he says... > > We all know what he says. Just read the quotes. > > That is how it happens. > > The universe is now rotating around him instead of the sun for a few days > and his head is spinning on his great fortune. He starts swerving over > into other areas of expertise like Financial Advising, telling the finder > not > to be suckered into selling his meteorite too cheap to the first greedy > dealer that comes along to rip him off. > > Or he goes the other way and tells the finder, that if he donates the > rock > to his institution, that all the positive PR this will generate for his > school will help him get on that tenured track he is coveting. Oh wait, > he > THINKS that, he actually tells the finder that only science will find the > mysteries of the universe locked in his rock if he gives it to the > school, > and that if a dealer gets it instead, it will only be cut into pieces. > > He starts thinking about the grant money he can get when he writes the > paper on it. Maybe he will get to speak at the Rotary Luncheon? Even > now his > students that laugh at him will HAVE to respect him. > > I could go on, about how "science" will have to look at the donated > object > through glass, as the committee at the school responsible for it won't > allow it to ever be cut...but I won't. > > Shove a TV camera in front of about anyone, and it amazing what comes out > of their mouth sometimes. > > Steve Arnold > > > > **************Remember Mom this Mother's Day! 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