Just posted this on Facebook:
ABC news just said the satellite that is going to deorbit next week is going to “burn up when it hits the scorching hot ring that surrounds the Earth.” Wow, they should not report science topics when they don’t know something as simple as why objects falling to Earth from space burn up.
Wanted to have it over here too for my own archive and because it is so amazing that they would say something so absolutely wrong.
True. It is astounding to me how often the reporters don’t really understand the subject or people they are reporting on. Earlier this month a news story from the same network had a reporter interviewing a young transgender person. The reporter clearly had no understanding of what transgender means, nor the ability to follow what the interviewee was saying. A shame that the reporter couldn’t be bother to do the simplest homework before the interview, and was more interested in the prurient than in the important. A bigger shame that the editors at the network aren’t previewing and checking national reports for accuracy.
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