This Week in Space 12 March 2010

Typical tele-journalism: 90% fluff, 1% real space content dished up like Superbowl match commentary. Yuck.
Still doesn't get people interested: even when delivered in "duh" terms.

Interested ?
865 views in one day??
As for typical tele-journalism: typical tele-jornalism doesn't even cover this sort of stuff and when it does it's generally even fluffier!

You do know he was presented with the Goddard Press Award!
"The Press Award will be presented to Mr. Miles O'Brien, member of NASA Advisory Council and broadcast news journalist, for epitomizing space journalism by reporting complex news in relatable terms expressing a lifelong passion for aviation, space and technology. He remains on the cutting edge of space news via SpaceflightNow.com and This Week in Space with Miles O'Brien."
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?contentBlockId=2d33f231-93ec-424d-a34e-20528310d57b
Duh!

I strongly disagree-I think Miles and his team is doing a great job reporting that which the MSM increasingly declines to do. That leaves us the trade press and Miles. He's likely doing wonders on a very tight budget. I hope he can continue these weekly reports-I look forward to each new release.

Yeah, I don't even agree with a lot his views on the new budget\plan but I think he does a great job here.

He does a good job at not injecting his opinion all over the place and providing unbiased coverage, and that is a really hard thing to find these days.

He also does great with a limited budget, gets interviews with key people, provides coverage of key events, etc. and doesn't charge a dime for it.

Waste said "He does great with a limited budget, gets interviews with key people, provides coverage of key events, etc. and doesn't charge a dime for it."

He may not "charge" for it, but I encourage you to consider donating - while I too do not agree with his position re the Obama budget, Miles does a far better showcasing for the public what we in the NASA community do than even NASA itself does.

Unlike the NASA PAO Miles seems to understand that you don't need to come across like MTV or South Park to get the message out.

Agreed. My overall point was that you can still get all he provides for free, so there is little room to complain here IMO.

I also encourage donating!

865 views in one day is significant? Au contraire! Peanuts. CNN is a major. You should know I was expecting far better but didn't get it. For such a short program the content was very limited I thought, and dwelt on trivia far too much. I would have preferred more time spent on real news just because of the short time frame available. This was the first time I'd seen a sample of the program, and I was far from impressed, Looked completely typical cliche-ridden TV Media to me, and similarly, instead of informing, had me scrabbling for the FF(boring!) button. O'Brien won a "Goddard Press award" from NSC ? Well, considering the hatchet job the then media did to RHG, when he needed them, that's almost a joke. Looked at it once more to see what I missed, but nothing turned up which leads me to revise my opinion, sorry. Nice to have a monopoly though!

Miles is spending his time -- and his money -- in providing these webcasts. With the exception of the donations, which I'd bet don't come anywhere near covering the costs, he is footing the whole bill himself. Maybe it doesn't have the shine of a slickly produced broadcast or cable program, it still tells me about space stuff in a concise way.WE ought to thank the guy for doing this, as well as his service on the Nasa Advisory Council. He takes the train into DC from New York City and pays this cost too as his service is voluntary. Miles has put his money where his enthusiasm lies. He ain't getting rich from any of this.

Alas in the time it has taken you to reply to my reply the views have gone up to 3,289! (Zeno's Paradox as applied to Youtube?)
With regards to CNN you don't even get the video
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/reuters/MTFH20175_2010-03-15_00-58-16_N14143877.htm
Faux on the other hand!
Krispace, with only a single viewing I would suggest you cast your net to the previous week: which was fun. And to the next: whatever that might hold.

Remenber that his target audience is broader than just a bunch of Steely-eyed Missile Persons and Space Cadets. Also remember that sometimes it can be a slow news cycle in space and with only two reporters there is only so much ground one can cover. Whilst NASAWatch is my daily stop for serious USASpace news (Kudos), Miles' TWIS is a useful weekly roundup. I say give it a chance!

You just can't make some people happy.

Above and beyond that, does anyone else think that continuing to fly the Shuttles for $2.5B or so a year is a bargain? Regardless of what else we develop, the capabilities provided by the Shuttle far outweigh the costs. It's sad that we're at a point where we can't spend $3B a year to retain the most capable and versatile spacecraft ever created.