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

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

And yet Wolf Blitzer is still off welfare.

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

Media at its finest. I say we throw out TVs altogether, take sledge hammers to them. Or at the very least cancel cable and satellite services. That way we can still rent/buy movies and watch them.

Read, People! Unite and read!

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't we all be poking our heads into the sand this way? Then we won't have to face environmental realities, RIGHT?

...right?

[sci-o-biscuits.livejournal.com]

"We want to integrate environmental, science, an technology reporting"

a nice way of saying "We want to slash costs by firing people"

[quilterbear.livejournal.com]

There are so many things about Wolf that annoy me, but one is how he always says "thanks very much" to anyone who has reported anything... and always in a monotone voice. Ughghghghghghghhhh don't get me started... wait, you did!

[deliabarry.livejournal.com]

Oh, for the love of Mike. Will the stupidity never end? This kind of thinking is why I have to deal with undergraduates who think the Moon landing was faked, that global warming will resolve itself, and evolution is a pseudoscience.

And I'm going to miss Miles O'Brien so much. He made the Pathfinder landing so much fun and got me through the Columbia non-landing. Maybe he'll get his own show on Discovery.