"Each parabolic dish can produce 25 kilowatts of electrical power, enough to power about 10 homes." - Patricia Wilson, Reuters, Washington Post, August 8, 2005
What does this statement tell you about what the parabolic dish in question can do? This is from a report written by someone from Reuters, regarding the Energy Bill recently signed by the President.
They call this journalism? It is a good way of telling us nothing about it while pretending to tell us something. And no, I did not take it out of context. Here is the link for the article, so that you can read it yourself. bad article! Tell me what you think. Should this count as good journalism? I cannot take this and go and tell people how effective the parabolic dishes are! I can only look at it, mumble curses and such, and move on. And we wonder why Americans are getting stupider! Yes, I said stupider. Fits the times and all...
Well, I will post about my view on the earlier post tomorrow. now its daily show, which is better news than any news program out there, and IT'S FAKE.
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Yeah the article is written poorply, but half of America doesn't give a damn about energy. How many people really read this article any way?
The only thing people seem to care about is the price of gas and how this effects them. No one seems to be looking ahead towards finding ways to ween ourselves of oil, a nonrenuable resources that will eventually run out, no matter how many oil wells we have. Bah... makes me angry...
That is a poorly written article, however, they do reference the solar dishes in the preceding paragraph. Alas, many people may not realize that "parabolic dish" is same thing as "solar dish" b/c it was sort of rushed in. The person who wrote this did not explain things well. And that heading of Parabolic Dish was just dumb. She could have described it differently. Bah.
Does the 'news' make you angry? Are you cranky?
I think the very fact that such articles show alongside banners for Oprah's weight loss secret, etc. sort of underscore the news's tie to entertainment value. "Being in the know" is somewhat akin to "being entertained." You have a basis for exchange with others by knowing about world political/cultural events.
What do people care of extremely informative content, just so long as they have a general idea of what's going on in the world around them? If they wanted more in-depth knowledge, that's what research is for. News articles are only meant to give a cursory glance at an issue--an overview.
All in all, the article was little more informative than the article title, but it did serve to indicate current issues in energy and politics--such as drilling in Alaska or tax credits for alternative energy use. Good enough information for talk around the water-cooler....
Hey Andy! Thanks for stopping by my blog the other day. It's cool to see that you've got one too. :-) I will be checking in every then and now.... nice catchy name....khazaki khaki shack...say that ten times fast. Wouldn't be harder than the chernusha, belusha, strakusha, rohusha, pondula,brrnusha, sivana, babusha!
it's sad. reading this, i didn't think it was particularly bad given the kind of writing i see when i am reading other online news stories. maybe i suck at finding news articles that are well written, or maybe else sucks at writing....or rather, the good writers have better jobs than these journalists. of course, isn't the newspaper supposed to be written at an 8th grade level or something to effect? so that even somebody who "can' reed good" gets it...does this extend into our online media as well? i do not know, perhaps one of you multitude of commenters can, well, comment.
kthanks,
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Power the houses for how long?? I love the forgotten details. Telling us that it powers x number of houses and nothing else tells us nothing about the ability of these solar dishes to gather energy... unless you have explicit knowledge about the solar/parabolic dishes and know exactly what kind they are talking about and how much energy they can produce to last x amount of time, we get no information about their efficiency. Of course, I am a mind reader, and reuters suspects that you are too... so I'm sure we all can guess just how productive these solar/parabolic dishes are. I hate our president and all his cohorts, he's an ignorant s.o.b.
I chose not to even comment on the energy crises, and our continued use of oil, regardles to it being foreign oil, or oil drilled in our own backyard... because then all you'll get from me are angry expletives.
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