From: bweimann@wallnet.com
Subject: no press conf AGAIN!
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 97 16:24:54 -0400
Well, they did it again, only this time it was worse and they showed even less of the press conference, and C-Span didn't show anything at all. The extent of my frustration is inexpressible. They give us just enough to titilate us, and then when the scientists get really interesting, they take it away. I called CNN and the young lady to whom I spoke, said that so many people had called that they were going to return to the press conference right away. So I hung up and rushed back to the tv only to see that they had instead returned to John Holliman answering questions on a talk live program, and they STILL were not showing the press conference. They did let Donn Shirley answer some of the questions, and that was nice, of course, but couldn't they have done it at a time when they wouldn't interrupt the press conference. I tried to call C-Span, but no one had a number. I'll try on the internet, however, I can't understand why no one seems to realize that such a press conference is of importance to the public. With over 100,000,000 hits on the NASA sites, haven't they gotten the message yet. Does anyone know of a way to watch these press conferences at a later date? Might they be rebroadcast? Or does anyone know of a way to convince these networks that the public is interested in seeing the conference in its entirety. I've spent hours every day for the last few days trying to get my computer set up so that I can see the video streamed conferences, but am having serious modem probems, it's working on my OS/2 drive, but not on my WIN 95 drive, in addition to the fact that I haven't yet been able to figure out how to do it. <sigh> Barb wondering if I am the only person who would really like to see these complete press conferences. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- bweimann@wallnet.com -----------------------------------------------------------