Leifer
Senior Member.
The cable network "Science Channel " (© Discovery Communications,LLC) has a show, "What on Earth ?".
It examines "strange satellite images" (terrestrial images from space satellites), and attempts to explain them.....about 3-4 mysterious satellite anomalies per episode.
But, the show spends most of it's time proposing conjecture and speculation....from the mouths of science experts !!.
How does it do this ???
If you've seen the show, you know what I mean......"scientists with proper labels" like volcanologists, geologists, oceanographers, etc...are interviewed, and seem to present unanswered questions, as to the "mysterious images". Non-experts with conspiratorial guesses, are also interviewed.
The problem, is the show is concentrated on the "mysteries" of the satellite images, rather than the actual explanations, which they eventually reveal (or never reveal).
I've been on a cable network TV series interview...and I can say that questions were fed to me by the producers, and I was encouraged to "reply with the question, in my answer". Fair enough, right ? This is standard operation, in an "off camera, no interviewer voice" interview.
For example....the producer could ask the science expert, "Why is this so mysterious ?"...
....and the answer is something like: "This is mysterious because....xxxxxxxxxxx".
There you go....a science expert caught on video saying/repeating the reasons of mystery, but not (yet) explaining why it's not a mystery......so most of the scientist "verbal on-air content" is describing the mystery, not the real explanation.
http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-sh...t-on-earth-videos/loch-ness-monster-sighting/
It examines "strange satellite images" (terrestrial images from space satellites), and attempts to explain them.....about 3-4 mysterious satellite anomalies per episode.
How does it do this ???
If you've seen the show, you know what I mean......"scientists with proper labels" like volcanologists, geologists, oceanographers, etc...are interviewed, and seem to present unanswered questions, as to the "mysterious images". Non-experts with conspiratorial guesses, are also interviewed.
The problem, is the show is concentrated on the "mysteries" of the satellite images, rather than the actual explanations, which they eventually reveal (or never reveal).
I've been on a cable network TV series interview...and I can say that questions were fed to me by the producers, and I was encouraged to "reply with the question, in my answer". Fair enough, right ? This is standard operation, in an "off camera, no interviewer voice" interview.
For example....the producer could ask the science expert, "Why is this so mysterious ?"...
....and the answer is something like: "This is mysterious because....xxxxxxxxxxx".
There you go....a science expert caught on video saying/repeating the reasons of mystery, but not (yet) explaining why it's not a mystery......so most of the scientist "verbal on-air content" is describing the mystery, not the real explanation.
http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-sh...t-on-earth-videos/loch-ness-monster-sighting/
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