Friday, October 31, 2014

CNN Does a Typically Inept Job of Reporting on the Virgin Galactic Incident

With a war-time headline, CNN tells us TRAGEDY STRIKES as if Pearl Harbor had been bombed all over again.

There there's a reference to the 'tragedy posing questions about the future of space tourism' as if anyone but CNN will ask them and as if anyone would read them if they did.

The actual situation is that one test pilot was killed.  The other ejected but was still seriously injured.  The Virgin Galactic Two vehicle did not explode in midair.  The problem may have come from a new fuel they were using for the first time in a manned flight.  That the other pilot was injured even though he managed to eject further implies a fuel problem of some kind to me as perhaps that invaded the cabin.  This is just guessing and we will have to wait.

I did not get any of that information from CNN as I was immediately appalled by how CNN sought to sensationalize it thus read no further.

It raises no more questions about the future of space tourism than existed already.  Is it still fucking dangerous?  Yes, it still fucking is.  Do you fucking get it.

Imbeciles.

Fortunately the imbeciles are not much respected as tickets for flights on Virgin Galactic Two go for $250,000 per person payable in-advance and they have sold many.  For some, danger is a part of life. For CNN, it is something to sell fat people who live at far more threat of early death than any thrillseeker will ever face but their choice is cardiac arrest from inactivity.  Nothin' but a bunch of huckster hound dogs in CNN's kennel.

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