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REPORT: new NASA head -- Dan Crippen, economist and public health systems expert
In sci.space.policy Herb Schaltegger wrote:
In article , Andrew Gray wrote: Update: White House sources now say that there are no current plans to make an announcement about the NASA Administrator nominee tomorrow. Moreover, the traditional pre-announcement briefings on the Hill have not happened yet. More media-induced stray voltage? Sure sounds like it. Stay tuned. Stuff like this is rarely "media-induced" despite the tendency to blame "the media" for everything. Sounds MUCH more like classic trial balloon to me. This administration doesn't do trial balloons, at least not in the classic sense. It's much more likely to be a leak from a low-level source opposed to the nomination who is trying to kill it than a trial balloon. Either that, or a journalist talking out of his posterior (my guess). Mike ----- Michael Kent Apple II Forever!! St. Peters, MO |
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Elden wrote:
---------- ...snip.... You will note, however, that NASAWatch was scolding this "unnamed reporter" for spreading rumors when the reality was that NASAWatch probably did more to spread the rumor than anybody else. Cowing tends to be hypocritical, wagging his finger at people for doing the exact same things that he does on his website. He seems to live, eat, breath, sleep this stuff.....and has a permanent bee in his bonnet against NASA administration, etc. I always get skeptical when I encounter a zealot like that. What's the real story here ? What's in it for him ? No doubt a smart guy, but so much negative energy. How does his wife & family put up with it ? Does anyone really care ***that*** much about some typo on a NASA website (for example) ? To each his own, for sure, but you gotta wonder..... |
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NoSpam writes:
To each his own, for sure, but you gotta wonder..... I have to agree. We almost need a NASAwatchwatch. -- J. Porter Clark |
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In article , NoSpam wrote: here ? What's in it for him ? Well, recently he was getting special access to the NASA Administrator. You'll note that in the past couple of years he has not said anything negative about O'Keefe on his website. Compare that to his attitude toward Dan Goldin. Clearly he's in the tank. Elden |
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He seems to live, eat, breath, sleep this stuff.....and has a
permanent bee in his bonnet against NASA administration, etc. I always get skeptical when I encounter a zealot like that. What's the real story here ? What's in it for him ? As I understand it, the bee was placed in the bonnet when Dan Goldin shut down the Space Station office in Reston, VA where Cowing worked. I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other about whether that Reston office was a Good Thing or a Bad Thing for the station program, but Cowing sure does. (To really get into this would require a more detailed discussion of HQ, JSC, the various contracts for station work, and the program's organization in the 1990's - see for example http://www.abo.fi/~mlindroo/Station/Slides/sld061.htm for at least a mention of the decision to close Reston). Like any source, Cowing has biases, but I think it is a very good thing that he's doing what he's doing. I wish we had more "journalism" like this. |
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On 28 Feb 2005 11:15:57 -0500, in a place far, far away, Jim Kingdon
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Like any source, Cowing has biases, but I think it is a very good thing that he's doing what he's doing. I wish we had more "journalism" like this. Yes, he does manage to cover things that few other journalists are interested in, but are interesting to the space community. |
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