On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:51:45 CST, in a place far, far away,
(Arthur Hansen) made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

(Rand Simberg) wrote in message . ..
Oh, cool. More "Bash NASA" drivel that really serves no purpose.

It serves no purpose to point out that there's a problem?

It is not constructive criticism, it is merely destructive.

In what way?

All you've recently done is say how bad NASA is. And an biased view.

Of course it's a biased view. Who doesn't have a biased view?

Biased? Yes. You pointed to the NASA problems on planetary
exploration, yet fail to mention that *everyone* and their dog has had
problems with their Mars probes.

I didn't know that "everyone and their dog" had attempted planetary
exploration.

But you make it seem that NASA in
particular is having a problem there, when the oposite is generally
true.

I discuss NASA because, well, that's the subject of the article. I
didn't defend ESA or the Russians.

If you continue blathering (and I meant that not against you, but the
article) you are going to marginilize your opinion and dilute what you
are trying to say.

In your opinion.

Does NASA have problems? Hell, yes.

Is this the way to fix it? No, not really.

Is what the way to fix it? I didn't recommend any particular fix. I
simply point out that one is required.

How about a solution, rather than bitch about the problem?

Go back and read my Fox columns for the past couple years...

I did not notice anything that attempted to be a rational discussion
on fixing NASA in there, but I was turned off by the rehtoric in very
short order and didn't finish the article.

I've no idea what article you're talking about.

Talk about non-constructive criticism...

And of importance, all you are doing is feeding to the public is that
NASA can't do anything correct, they are totally innefectual which is
actually *making* NASA more innefectual. NASA may have problems, but
that is not accurate to the level implied.

What I implied is not necessarily what you chose to infer.

Journalism is a potent device for social change, used incuatiously (or
deliberately) it can cause as many problems as it creates solutions.

It can, but you've certainly made no case that it does in this
instance.

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