Congrats to CNN!

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Posted by Mike Soukup at 04/16/2001 2:13 PM EST


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling and Motorola.


In Reply to: Congrats to CNN!
Posted by Jessica Boucher on 04/14/2001 2:06 PM EST:



I agree, it was a good segment by CNN. I was very impressed. It's amazing what a good story journalists can do on FIRST if they dedicate some time to getting their facts straight and to actually understanding the whole point of FIRST.

I've been disappointed too many times by Chicago news and their coverage of "robots playing basketball," their short clips about FIRST, and their lack of understanding of the whole program. The evening we won the Midwest Regional, they had a 30 second brush over about FIRST and right after it had a a 3-4 minute in depth piece about a pipe organ.

Far too few reporters take the time to do a good story on FIRST. They would rather take the easy way out and scratch the surface instead of going deeper as CNN did.

I think we should all let producers know that we appreciate the stories they do and encourage them to do more in the future. I'll send an email to CNN this afternoon.

Mike