Words for the wise from the mouth of a fool.

Saturday, February 01, 2003

I've been very impressed with the job Miles O'Brien is doing anchoring coverage on CNN. He's well-informed on the topics at hand, and more importantly he's been the first to quash wanderings from fact, from the "terrorism" mumblings early Saturday morning, to those claiming they saw a plane in the air nearby. Tonight, he's even praised those who avoid speculation altogether (such as Story Musgrave, who declined to answer a couple questions because he lacked the proper technical background.)

However, it does bug me a bit to see that O'Brien's CNN bio has already been updated to mention the coverage as a career highlight. The rest of the information in the paragraph is useful--indeed, remembering him from his Mars coverage a couple years ago (turns out it was in 1999) I went to the page to find out more about his background covering space stories. But opening with the Columbia disaster as if it's a past event already...

O'Brien is likely innocent as he's been too busy onscreen, but tsk-tsk in the direction of whatever CNN webhead is getting a bit ahead of what seems appropriate.


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