History in the making!

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:17 am

I HATE simple cable!

While the big three networks were carping about the Middle East, Bill Clinton's memoirs (all about the sex, bay-bee!) and the usual morning show blather, they only gave scant reference to history being made.

Scaled Composites is well on its way to winning the $10M X-Prize with their successful test flight today where they sent a small rocketship 100km up - where "outer space" begins. This flight marked the first time in history (yes, history) where privately-owned manned spacecraft made it into outer space.

CNN said they were showing it live, but my current cable level don't support that.

The only minor consolation I got was watching Katie Couric sweating a bit when she was chatting with Michael Moore (who I find disagreeable and loud) r.e. "Fahrenheit 9/11" - he was trying to wrest control of the interview from her.

All the other news that's going on in the world would have been there an hour later. Heck, even Al-Jazeera had a spot on their front page about the flight.

The newsies could have taken a little break from the regular news of the day to cover something of importance that would have generated less controversy than President Reagan's passing.

Ahh humanity!

Post by **bio** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:29 am

Unfortunately, the public as a whole has the same attention span as a 3 year old.

If it's not controversial, flashy, or otherwise entertaining... people aren't much interested, and the media doesn't give it the attention it deserves.

bugfreezer · Post by **bugfreezer** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:20 pm

And boy, don't I know 3 year-olds!