Posted on 02/01/2003 3:07:19 PM PST by TLBSHOW
Did anyone hear Fox TV report that an AP reporter added a smear in a profile of the crew?
This was between 12:30 and 1:00 I believe.
The Fox person apologized and slammed AP writer.
Did anyone hear this besides me? What is AP thinking besides their normal hate selves.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention and you might be right about the AP playing their games.
When I die, they'll say Mertz was a decent man but two and a half years ago he scratched while trying to sink the eight ball and lost the table and had to pay the beer bet.
That would be a smear.
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This is her bio from the Johnson Space Center web site:
KALPANA CHAWLA (PH.D.)
NASA ASTRONAUT
PERSONAL DATA: Born in Karnal, India. Kalpana Chawla enjoys flying, hiking, back-packing, and reading. She holds Certificated Flight Instructor's license with airplane and glider ratings, Commercial Pilot's licenses for single- and multi-engine land and seaplanes, and Gliders, and instrument rating for airplanes. She enjoys flying aerobatics and tail-wheel airplanes.
EDUCATION: Graduated from Tagore School, Karnal, India, in 1976. Bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from Punjab Engineering College, India, 1982. Master of science degree in aerospace engineering from University of Texas, 1984. Doctorate of philosophy in aerospace engineering from University of Colorado, 1988.
EXPERIENCE: In 1988, Kalpana Chawla started work at NASA Ames Research Center in the area of powered-lift computational fluid dynamics. Her research concentrated on simulation of complex air flows encountered around aircraft such as the Harrier in "ground-effect." Following completion of this project she supported research in mapping of flow solvers to parallel computers, and testing of these solvers by carrying out powered lift computations. In 1993 Kalpana Chawla joined Overset Methods Inc., Los Altos, California, as Vice President and Research Scientist to form a team with other researchers specializing in simulation of moving multiple body problems. She was responsible for development and implementation of efficient techniques to perform aerodynamic optimization. Results of various projects that Kalpana Chawla participated in are documented in technical conference papers and journals.
NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in December 1994, Kalpana Chawla reported to the Johnson Space Center in March 1995 as an astronaut candidate in the 15th Group of Astronauts. After completing a year of training and evaluation, she was assigned as crew representative to work technical issues for the Astronaut Office EVA/Robotics and Computer Branches. Her assignments included work on development of Robotic Situational Awareness Displays and testing space shuttle control software in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory.
In November, 1996, Kalpana Chawla was assigned as mission specialist and prime robotic arm operator on STS-87 (November 19 to December 5, 1997). STS-87 was the fourth U.S Microgravity Payload flight and focused on experiments designed to study how the weightless environment of space affects various physical processes, and on observations of the Sun's outer atmospheric layers. Two members of the crew performed an EVA (spacewalk) which featured the manual capture of a Spartan satellite, in addition to testing EVA tools and procedures for future Space Station assembly. In completing her first mission, Kalpana Chawla traveled 6.5 million miles in 252 orbits of the Earth and logged 376 hours and 34 minutes in space. In January, 1998, Kalpana Chawla was assigned as crew representative for shuttle and station flight crew equipment. Subsequently, she was assigned as the lead for Astronaut Offices Crew Systems and Habitability section. She is currently assigned to the crew of STS-107 scheduled for launch in 2003.
JANUARY 2003
Dan Rather Coverage of Columbia Disaster
I caught the original FOX/AP biographical comment (local Fox26 broadcast Fox News) and was still home posting on FR when I heard the apology (which I was glad to hear).
Wow. I'm getting a lecture from a newbie, everyone! :) How quaint! She thinks she knows a man's position and prejudices from two posts!
Here's one to watch...it might be fun.
Now, potato, once again: welcome to Free Republic. Your three week membership in FR indicates a true lack of maturity about the decorum and gentility you'll find among a great majority of FREEPers, including this one.
Try to recognize it--or try going to DU, where you might be more comfortable.
Back in 1995 or '96, at the height of the "militia movement" hysteria by the libs, some friends and I sent a fax announcing the gathering of the Barnstable Militia on the village green at Hyannis, complete with nice graphics of Revolutionary Militiamen and all. We sent it to the two talk show hosts, as a goof.
Well, the newsperson thought it was a genuine press release and read it as part of the news.
People started calling in and wanting to know whether they should bring their firearms ID's or not.
Apparently, some people did show up; and the talk show guys said there were ATF agents all over the place waiting for the mob to arrive.
Shepherd Smith was the SECOND person to mention that piece on the astronaut. I was switching between MSNBC and FOX and heard it on MSNBC first.!
Can't recall the name of the reader who said it, but can guarantee I heard it there before Shep picked it up.
When I worked in radio I did my darnedest to make sure I wasn't doing morning drive time on April 1.
In my early days in radio I had 2 strikes against me when it came to breaking news, I lived the closest and was the only single member of the news department - so I was always called first by the night and over night staff.
When information is changing on a minute by minute basis, pre-reading is not always an option - as I'm sure you well know.
In this matter about the only person I see that deserves a talking to about appropriateness are the people that handed the Bio information to the anchors, whether it be at Fox or anywhere else.
I really can't even fault the AP writer(s) because their main goal is to get into the newspaper, which generally appear the next day - it was standard Bio stuff.
there are times when I really and truly miss being in the newsroom - but then there are times that remind why I am happy I am no longer there.
That ain't the case for me by a longshot. In the "least bad of the bunch" category, I vote for Brokaw. Rather, of course, brings up the rear.
We don't need no steenkin' badges.
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