There was no intro course on how to be a cable-news expert. The Town Car would show up to take me to the studio, I’d sign in with reception, a guest-greeter would take me to makeup, I’d hang out in the greenroom, the sound guy would rig me with a mike and an earpiece, a producer would lead me onto the set, I’d plug in and sit in the seat, a producer would tell me what camera to look at during the introduction, we’d come back from break, the anchor would read the introduction to the story and then ask me a question or maybe two, I’d answer, then we’d go to break, I would unplug, wipe off my makeup, and take the car 43 blocks back uptown. Then a couple of hours later, I’d do it again. I was spending 18 hours a day doing six minutes of talking.

b_b:

I'm hopeful someone equally knowledgeable writes a rebuttal, as most of us don't have the technical ability to know what flaws might exist with this theory. It would be nice to have a pro/con sort of comparison. I definitely had the same feeling as the author when a second MA 777 was shot down. The odds of that are so strikingly low that it seems out of the realm of possibility that it was pure chance. If it is true that this is a technical possibility, I'm sure the US government and Boeing both know about it, as there's nothing that one guy could figure out that their teams of experts couldn't. Anyway, I'll look forward to the response pieces, because at the pace this is making the rounds of the internet, there will be one in short order, I'm sure.

posted 3342 days ago