Re: [APML] A sad Time best picture

["Chris & Jennifer Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>]

Doesn't surprise me at all.
Most news agencies can't even get the news correct let alone knowing what a
meteor in a astrophoto is suppose to look like.
I wonder who the "science editor" is, if they even have one?

Chris

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Chris Cook
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Lodriguss <jerry@astropix.com>
To: astro-photo@seds.org <astro-photo@seds.org>
Date: Saturday, January 04, 2003 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] A sad Time best picture


>Hi Mike,
>
>I heard about this.
>
>It's just more proof of the decline and fall of western civilization as
>precipitated by the unbridled greed of the corporations who in their
>commitment solely to the bottom line hire inexperienced and uneducated
>editors because they can pay them bottom dollar.
>
>Jerry
>
>At 01:46 PM 1/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>Browsing the special issue of Time's 2002 best pictures I noticed the
>>full page "Perseids shower" image.  The problem is that there is not
>>a single Perseids meteor in the picture.  It is nothing more than a
>>poorly focus star field with trailing and a foreground of people
>>appearing to watch the "event".  On top of that, the sky background
>>was yellow green.
>>
>>It saddens me that this image should be chosen when so many great
>>images have been posted in this and other astro mailing groups.
>>
>>
>>Mike Cook, AF9Y
>>http://www.af9y.com
>>mwcook@cris.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
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