Daniel, the fact that some of us know how to research astronomical events on the Internet doesn't excuse Astronomy for pimping like mad for a comet people aren't going to be impressed with. Certainly they know that big headlines like that, even if false, sell a lot of magazines. Even this is 2013, they're still selling magazines. They're in every Barnes & Noble in the country, I bet, as well as a lot of supermarkets. And what's with the personal attack? Why assume I'd be doing the ridiculous marking up? I would never want my name associated with some big fake promotion. Kind of insulting, out of the blue, to see you defending bad journalism and accusing others of doing it if we could. -- Joe ________________________________ From: daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 11:17 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Augh! Gotta to vent Ah come on guys. If this were called Comet Wiggins-Bauman you both would be down at the newsstands with magic markers adding exclamation points to every issue on the rack. Seriously, no one has cared what's on the cover of Astronomy Magazine for many years now. Anyone who's interested will go straight to Google or Wiki and do some research by cross checking any number of sources and filtering out the hyperbole all by themselves. The editors at Astronomy are not the gatekeepers of information any more. Today is 2013, not 1973. DT ________________________________ From: Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 9:08 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Augh! Gotta to vent Amazingly bad editorial judgement. ________________________________ From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: utah astronomy listserve utah astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 5:59 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Augh! Gotta to vent Ol' Greybeard here, They're at it again! The cover of the November issue of Astronomy features a large HST image of ISON with the headline reading: "SPECIAL ISSUE Comet ISON BALZES INTO GLORY" I'm surprised they left off a few exclamation point. Ugh! patrick (who *hopes* they're right...) On 03 Sep 2013, at 15:18, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
Anyone here seen the ad Astronomy magazine emailed out today?
It's headlined "DON'T MISS The GREAT COMET OF 2013" and is hawking a "DEFINITIVE GUIDE" to the comet (their choice of upper case, not mine).
They're talking about ISON, of course.
I'm guessing the folks at Astronomy are not old enough to have learned the lessons of Comet Kohoutek.
Ugh!
patrick
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