[meteorite-list] Anyone remember this?

From: MeteorHntr at aol.com <MeteorHntr_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 12:14:33 EDT
Message-ID: <d3b.40bb66c9.3735b469_at_aol.com>

It really is a tough situation. Sounds like the producer didn't do their
job ahead of time.

But in their shoes, what should they do they do? They brought the
scientist in to talk about the science, and probably brought Darryl in to talk
about how much it might be worth on the collector market. As Darryl is
promoted to be an expert in aesthetic irons, this thing the local expert told
them was an iron meteorite, and with Darryl being from the big city, I bet
they thought it would round off their show nicely...that is until he threw the
monkey wrench into their (not so) well laid plans.

We would all agree the BEST solution would be that ALL people with nice
degrees would have their facts straight and know what they are talking about
when asked.

I am sure, especially on the radio, they have to deal with dozens of crack
pots every day, from people playing pranks by impersonating other people,
to people that don't know what they are talking about, to people that
really are crazy.

In a second or two they have to decide, do we embarrass our local hometown
expert that is putting his reputation on the line by giving the
non-degreed out of town commercial meteorite dealer more air time, or separate the
two? Then, if cutting off one of the two, the decision needs to be made
which one gets hung up on?

A good producer will know every answer you will give to every question
that will be posed ahead of time, because that producer will have asked the
guests those questions ahead of time off the air. Much easier on TV than on
the radio, but still, that is how it is supposed to be done. In any case,
Darryl's answer didn't fit with what they thought it should be and I am
sure they went into panic mode.

If they had asked Darryl about this before the show went live, they would
have known his stance, and could have avoided the question with the answer
they didn't like, or they could have uninvited Darryl before the interview
started to avoid the conflict.

Obviously, TV shows have bigger budgets to pay people to do a better job
of such screening, and mess ups on TV are a bit more embarrassing than on the
 radio, so "flushing" a interviewee, especially if it is a call in, is far
easier than investing too much into the pre-show planning.

Besides, lots of these radio talk shows are doing what they do for humor,
and they just roll from one topic to the next trying to keep the drivers
awake on the conveyor belt commute into work in the morning.

It would be safe to say probably the only two people that even remember
anything about the interview would be Darryl and the other "expert and
degreed" guest, and I am sure the later would like to forget about it, as I am
sure he is quite embarrassed about getting the diagnosis wrong. The person
doing the interview probably doesn't even remember it. And sadly, probably
no one listening on the radio driving to work that morning even remembers
it.

Radios are in business to sell ads and make money. They need to keep
listeners to stay tuned between commercials. For them, it is all filler. Who
cares if it is factually correct or not.

Steve Arnold






In a message dated 5/8/2009 10:27:16 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
GeoZay at aol.com writes:
>>Amateur scientists and aspiring scientists of all stripes have always
faced this bias from "authority". At least Fox didn't give Darryl the
"Galileo Treatment". ;)<<

It was unfortunate that Darryl had this happen to him, but on the other
side of the coin, where it applies to matters of science, I'd rather have
more faith in those with degrees in the fields under discussion. Maybe
there
would be more folks leaning towards Evolution than Creationism for
example...or Less UFO sightings with ET alien overtones. Then again it
takes a
person or two with science degrees to voice their off the wall authority
to
wrongly direct folks towards erroneous beliefs.
GeoZay

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