I'm just not sold on where exactly the level of "enough drama" to "too much drama" is.
It will be dictated by public reaction, I'm assuming. There is of course the fact that certain media outlets are just prone to hyping up stories more than others. I think it's on us, the viewers, to limit and regulate ourselves as to what we buy into and what hype we get behind. The media is going to do what it's gotta do for those ratings. You can't blame them, it pays the bills.
...But I think it's still a long ways away from science being a desired news story. Here are todays top searches on
Yahoo:
(1)American Idol
(2)Tori Amos
(3)Angelina Jolie
(4)Dancing With the St
(5)Dolla
(6)Dane Cook
(7)Quit Smoking
(8)Palm Pre
(9)Fitness Programs
(10)Fuel-Efficient Cars
Still no ape girl - but people wanna know about
Doll(a), though.
Perhaps I should just suck-it-up and see where this goes
I think we'll see more hyped up science related stories in the coming years.
Blue Planet,
Planet Earth (both the series and the new movie),
Inconvinient Truth, etc. I think they serve as an example that there is a current media push for these types of shows, movies, news stories, these days for reasons that I suspect have a bigger agenda behind them.
- Oni
"I smoke pot. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your mouth."--Bill Hicks
"I never knew there was another option other than to question everything"--Noam Chomsky