How Media Would Cover the Moon Landing If It Happened Today

On the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing, Slate V imagines how TV news would cover that historic event if it happened today.
spoco2says...

So damn true, it had me from 'lets talk now with our panelists'.

The amount of mouth flapping and inane dribble that fills the airwaves now is insane. And yes, it's at the expense of just WATCHING/LISTENING to things actually happening.

This giving an opinion on what just happened seconds ago is a bloody media cancer. I can but hope it goes away.

ravermansays...

Where's Fox news?

... saying how it's a complete waste of money by the Obama administration, and how it's irresponsibly bringing the cold war with Russia the the brink of killing us all?

How the lunar lander will push the moon out of orbit and it will be all the fault of liberal moon shifting democrats!

rychansays...

God I hate some of these modern news trends. So much of what is said is so vacuous. Why is it such a sacred rule that you can't go 2 seconds without talking? Why would you accept editorial comment from idiots on twitter at the expense of actual experts?

It's not that freaking hard -- perform actual investigating, fact checking, analysis, and reporting. Ask serious questions to leaders and follow up on them hard.

The debate about health care is so stupid. Talk to the actual economists and health care experts, don't get into emotional traps about "quotas" or "freedom".

And don't talk about the maneuvering on capital hill. Don't try and make a daily scorecard. It's about the issues not the freaking process. "Oh does Obama look bad because his timeline might be moved back". That is asinine.

Croccydilesays...

The most trusted man in America (tm) died only a few days earlier as well, who could have taken on any of these douchebags with some real news reporting any day.

Any chance of resurrecting a zombie Cronkite to replace all the crap out there now?

Drachen_Jagersays...

They're missing FOX talking about how this is really irrelevant because a Democratic president was sitting at the time, of course the real building of the country that made this all possible was done by Republicans, and the Democrats probably faked the whole thing anyhow.

Of course they wouldn't say it so politely, the O'numbnuts would be screaming at someone about how he's a moron because he believes the landing was real...

thinker247says...

Where is the news crawler at the bottom of the screen, making sure that while you're watching a man land on the moon you can also check your stocks, learn what prescription medication is killing you and find out that tornados are destroying homes in Tornado Alley yet again?

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