[steplock]

He was playing with Rush - no?

Actually - what does it matter that he stayed on vacation ... especially since he wasn't informed of what happened for a few hours. The big story is the breaking one - not the follow-ups. He missed the breaking story, shrugged and kept on playing.

That's What I'd have done myself.

[ArcLight]

Nope...sorry. This just isn't done. I'm a journalist, and I don't even cover the space program. I dropped what I was doing, and headed for the newsroom. It's what reporters do. If you don't think that way, you don't belong in this business. i think Aaron Brown's behavior was inexcusable.