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Originally Posted by DonRotolo
To a journalism major, science was a class they suffered greatly through, never really did understand, and hope they get close enough so no readers/viewers complain.
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I'm not sure that's a fair characterization. No doubt there are some writers who are lazy and hate science, just like there are engineers who don't like designing things, they just heard that engineering was a well paying field. I'd like to think that there are reporters out their who actually care about getting it right. The people who write for the aviation and space publications are pretty good at getting the details right, I'm sure many industries and just general science and technology interests have people like that.
I don't know if it varies by industry, but in talking to local TV reporters it seems that a lack of manpower is typically their Achilles' heal. They don't really have time to research a story, just enough to go out and shoot the footage and then splice it together for the newsreel.
Also other interesting balloon news, some ham radio enthusiasts sent a balloon from California to Europe in December, some very interesting stuff.