From: "cyberkil" <cyberkil@mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: no press conf AGAIN!
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 21:38:49 -0000
i know how you are feeling. i cant understand back in my home town of milwaukee wisconsin, our cable company would carry 24 hour live nasa tv. now i live here i the heart of space country, FLORIDA! and i cant get a drop. i guess it's a dry state. ha ha ---- From: bweimann@wallnet.com To: discuss-lfm@quest.arc.nasa.gov Date: Tuesday, July 08, 1997 9:32 PM Subject: no press conf AGAIN! >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 >----------------------------------------------------------- > >