[Utah-astronomy] Media's Hype Distorts NASA's Reality

Here's an editorial I found on the web. It seems a bit too "in your face" for News, but we here on UA seem to enjoy such a read now and then (and maybe it'll get us thinking of something other than politics dictating what "science" is. <grin> ). "Recently I read a headline stating: "The world holds its breath for the shuttle landing..." But Who were holding their breaths? NASA? The Discovery astronauts? Or me? I think none of us! This is a grave distortion of reality, created by the media for their own commercial purposes." Continued at http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-05zt.html . Patrick