Blogger Says Media Misreported GPS Story (May 09)


	Blogger Says Media Misreported GPS Story (May 09)

TripodGirl

5-22-2009 4:03 PM

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TripodGirl says:

"We need smarter, better-informed, & less gullible reporters." Amen to that.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dc37c62b-69b3-462e-9d6f-cce8655b455d/C4F4A925-DE2F-48F0-8FB6-A9DB57F9F94D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cringely.com/2009/05/waas-up/" href="http://www.cringely.com/2009/05/waas-up/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cringely.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cringely.com/2009/05/waas-up/">The Government Accountability Office, a Federal watchdog agency, <A 
href="http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09670t.pdf">reported</A> on May 7th that the 
Global Positioning System of satellites used for navigation</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cringely.com/2009/05/waas-up/">
<P>is in danger of becoming unusable because satellites are not being replaced 
quickly enough by the U.S. Air Force.</p> <P>Only it isn’t true.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cringely.com/2009/05/waas-up/">Right now on Google News you can find more than 400 stories all saying the same 
thing with varying degrees of alarm.&nbsp;</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cringely.com/2009/05/waas-up/">The chances of the GPS system going down are very remote — FAR lower than the 20 
percent suggested by the GAO.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cringely.com/2009/05/waas-up/">So what’s going on here?&nbsp; Why is this even a story?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cringely.com/2009/05/waas-up/">Where is a professional and questioning press?&nbsp; It looks to me like 400+ 
media outlets rewrote the GAO press release and left it at that, giving-in to 
the fear-mongering that has become the way government policy is promoted these 
days.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cringely.com/2009/05/waas-up/">
<P>We need smarter, better-informed, and less gullible reporters.&nbsp; THAT’s 
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