Several years ago, the History Channel and the Discovery Channel would basically take defense contractor video brochures for weapon systems, add a commercial break to it and put it on TV. I think the Military Channel does this too.
I enjoy watching them very much but it’s probably good to know that the TV show is purely marketing from Raytheon or General Atomics.
I saw the LIsa Meyers story tonight on Hardball; I thought she was quite snarkey. She doesn’t seem to understand what operational test and evaluation is, and only looked at one aspect of it, their own “independent” tester. She didn’t look or discuss environmentals, she didn’t discuss the weight issue (at least that I recall), and she didn’t discuss longetivity.
I don’t trust anything on nbc/msnbc, and although sometimes Lisa can be an ok “reporter”, in this case, she is barking up the wrong tree, imho.
She tried to make a big deal out of some folks using the dragon skin, but without any context. Perhaps there was an approved test for a prototype/tech demo to evaluate the affects of the additional weight, etc., but of course, Ms. Meyers didn’t put any context to her report.
Most telling of all, is that the story is carried by MSNBC and the spitter — puts it all in proper perspective for me. Propaganda.