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I tuned in CNN's "coverage" last night as Spirit was about to land. Motormouth Miles O'Brien and his scientist sidekick couldn't shut up for one second. As a result, the live comments from the control room at JPL were totally drowned out by their incessant bable. At one point O'Brien referring to the JPL people said something like "Are they saying anything there, or are they being quiet? It's hard to tell, sometimes." Yeah, right!
This was supposed to be live coverage of an incredible historic event. Miles acted like this was simply his big opportunity to show off all the factoids he'd crammed into his head. He even started blabbing about an earlier Mars mission just as Spirit was supposedly touching down and JPL was getting the confirmation tones that it was intact. I was so angry I was screaming "Shut up you morons!" at the t.v. screen. I heard very little of the live comments of the JPL spokesman as the event was happening. It was all Miles O'Brien. This blabbermouth should have been told by the CNN control booth to shut up and let the audience experience the event as it was happening.
This was the worse coverage of a live space exploration event that I have ever seen. I don't recall commentators b-s-ing while Neil Armstrong was stepping on the moon and uttering his immortal words.
Did anybody else notice this and have the same reaction?