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- From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
- Subject: Re: Media and space
- References: <1992Dec30.230013.4102@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1992Dec31.195131.148@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan2.045416.15301@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <C0ABxu.539@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:07:30 GMT
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- In <C0ABxu.539@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan2.045416.15301@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
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- >>Concerning public opinion about the space program, IHMO those opinions can
- >>and are greatly influenced by the media's depiction of space exploration.
- >>Next time watch news coverage of a shuttle flight. Invariably some reference
- >>is made to the cost of that particular mission, plus any important technical
- >>information is either watered down or omitted.
- >>I've had people tell me that the media doesn't cover the space program very
- >>much because people aren't interested.
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- >>But here's somethin to think about: did people lose interest and the media
- >>reduced it's coverage in response, or did the media cut back coverage and then
- >>convince people that they weren't interested in it?
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- >How much interest SHOULD there be in any particular shuttle launch? If we
- >had an adequate space program, there should be not much more interest than
- >in a trip of an ocean liner. As the saying goes, "When man bites dog,
- >that's news."
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- >The first landing on the moon was quite properly a big media event, but
- >it is not at all surprising that the later ones were less so.
- >--
-
- this is true...some of us, a few, are interested in anything about the
- space program...most people, given the choice between watching (yet
- another) shuttle launch and an interview with ozzy osbourne will chose
- ozzy. i think that this is because the media doesn't do enough to
- present the space program in an interesting manner and because most
- people don't give a tinker's damn about outer space...we really ARE
- the minority...
-
- barb
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