"t_mark" wrote in message news:kOaRb.4$ay1.0@okepread05...
Seriously, all the self-congratulation and constant proclamations that
they
are the smartest people in the universe is getting really smarmy.

Uh, congratulating each other is perfectly fine. I don't see themselves
proclaiming they're the "smartest people in the universe". You people
bitching about this are amazing,

If you don't have access to NASA TV and your only insight to the
briefings is what CNN shows, it gives you a really smarmy impression
and the self congratulation really does appear to be flowing, because
nobody at CNN understands what really is so exciting, so that's what
they show. But that's what CNN shows. I got a chance to watch a
webcast an hour ago and that was far different.

I think having watched this all unfold the majority of the impression
is due to CNN types not reading the pre-landing briefs thoroughly, so
they seize on whatever words they do understand and they're the ones
that provide the unnecessary hype. Probably the way it happened for
Apollo too, I'm sure.

So I'd like to retract the bitching I did towards the rover team and
lay it on the media.

Tom Merkle