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Originally Posted by dgitz
How true, not just the media either.
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People always walk up to me in the halls and excitedly tell me that I should add an either an oil slick, bomb, flamethrower, or other dangerous and illegal device to our robot. It was funny at first, but it got old pretty quickly.
Often, people will form opinions from what another person says, then convey those instead of the original message.
The problem with the media is that they have their own way of doing things and ours conflicts with it. When there was a bomb threat on my school (on a Saturday during the build season, no less…), they interviewed a few students who showed up there that day for activities (which were cancelled). One of them is in my TV production class, and when everyone arrived the next day, the teacher showed the video and pointed out a section that looked like it had been edited to convey a different message. Sure enough, it had, and it was a great example of how one thing can be twisted into meaning another.
I'm working on a production to go on the school's TV channel about our robotics team, and because all of us have experienced the same sort of things, we shot an entire section about misconceptions. I don't expect it to fix everything, but I hope that it will at least be helpful in recruiting members, or explaining things to new members.