and today's prize for gross stupidity goes to . . .

[realthog]

. . . them doughty bean-counters at the infotainment channel CNN:

CNN Cuts Entire Science, Tech Team

By Curtis Brainard

CNN, the Cable News Network, announced yesterday that it will cut its entire science, technology, and environment news staff, including Miles O’Brien, its chief technology and environment correspondent, as well as six executive producers.

“We want to integrate environmental, science and technology reporting into the general editorial structure rather than have a stand alone unit,” said CNN spokesperson Barbara Levin. “Now that the bulk of our environmental coverage is being offered through the Planet in Peril franchise, which is produced by the Anderson Cooper 360 program, there is no need for a separate unit.”

For more on this, see the report in Columbia Journalism Review. The BBC World News channel should, with luck, be a part of your cable/satellite tv package.

 

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

I work near them (about 3/4 of a mile away as the crow flies).

Nature performed the requisite service this past March. I was at the time attending OmegaCon in Birmingham, Alabama. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"Nature performed the requisite service this past March."

Hm? The reference has gone zinging past me. Explain, please, oh mighty one.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

A tornado passed through downtown Atlanta, striking CNN headquarters among other buildings.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'd forgotten about that.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, it did not blow away Nancy Grace...