Mental Distortion » Dot Earth http://www.mentaldistortion.net A blog about something. Wed, 19 May 2010 19:13:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 CNN closing Science, Space and Tech unit http://www.mentaldistortion.net/2008/12/07/cnns-science-and-technology-coverage-going-down-the-tubes/ http://www.mentaldistortion.net/2008/12/07/cnns-science-and-technology-coverage-going-down-the-tubes/#comments Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:36:31 +0000 admin http://www.mentaldistortion.net/?p=72 This is an ominous sign.  After eight years of the Bush Administration’s War On Science, it only seems fitting that CNN has decided to close their Science, Space and Tech unit, with CNN deciding that Anderson Cooper’s Planet In Peril is enough coverage as it is for science and technology.  It doesn’t make sense to me to pile yet more duties on an already overworked journalist at CNN who seems to be everywhere when a news story breaks, whether it be politics, natural disasters, celebrity gossip and more.  

At a time when the country is not churning out enough scientists, and science funding is on the wane, the last thing one of the world’s largest news agencies should do is cut a division that had only 6 producers and 1 reporter, Miles O’Brien, that covered a wide array of scientific and technological stories around the world.  Unfortunately, programming about celebrity gossip and scandals bring in the big bucks, whereas stories on science and technology are seen as dry and unprofitable.

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