I'm thrilled they splashed down safely and successfully

[PCIntern]

No buts. My complaint is the media coverage. I was around for Cronkite and Schirra, Huntley, Brinkley, and Frank McGee. They spoke in literate, factual, relevant sentences with great descriptors. They had gentle humor and humanism. They were like your sane, smart uncles.

I just watched three networks and it was the most insipid conversations I’ve ever heard about anything. ABC, CNN, and NBC were the three and I kept skipping around because…BECAUSE…I couldn’t fucking take the repetitive stupidities and dopey interactions.

You think I’m being picky? I heard no fewer than three times the question asked: “What do you think is going through their minds…?”, David Muir, whom I normally like in a crumby way, saying the names of the four astronauts over and over and over again, talking over the flight controllers at Mission Control who were basically narrating the events as they happened, hearing that there was going to be a six minute blackout period FIFTY TIMES within a ten minute period, as though it wasn’t clear the first ten times they said it.

Yeah I know. I’m a putz. But I long for seriousness and erudition. Yes, I know…it’s hopeless…the news folks are not only stenographers, they’re cheerleaders who cannot tolerate unfilled airtime.