Blonde CNN Anchor Asks Bill Nye If Meteor Is Result Of Global Warming

[WildCat]

1. Props to Nye for not laughing out loud to such an amazingly ignorant question. No way I could have kept it together.

2. Maybe CNN should tilt the table a bit more towards "brains" instead of "beauty" when it comes to grading anchor applicants.

3. More evidence of the dumbing down of America.

4. FTR, I don't watch any cable news channels.

 

[geni]

1. Props to Nye for not laughing out loud to such an amazingly ignorant question. No way I could have kept it together.

2. Maybe CNN should tilt the table a bit more towards "brains" instead of "beauty" when it comes to grading anchor applicants.

Why? The rather limited "people with more than a passing interest in NEOs" market is largely web based rather than TV based so there is little point in spending money trying to cater to it.

In any case trying to judge the intelligence of the anchor from a few seconds of footage isn't very viable.

 

[WildCat]

In any case trying to judge the intelligence of the anchor from a few seconds of footage isn't very viable.

Did you not notice she was blonde? Probably from a bottle but still, it's more a state of mind than genetic.

 

[Monketi Ghost]

I'll judge it from a few seconds. The question was remarkably stupid/ill-informed, and the anchor is as well.

 

[anglolawyer]

Did he get cut off by a meteor strike? He said we shouldn't be worried about this one but he was trying to tell us about the one following along behind. Eek.

 

[godless dave]

Why? The rather limited "people with more than a passing interest in NEOs" market is largely web based rather than TV based so there is little point in spending money trying to cater to it.

In any case trying to judge the intelligence of the anchor from a few seconds of footage isn't very viable.

I think it's reasonable to expect a grade school knowledge of astronomy from someone who is allegedly a journalist.

 

[Denver]

It's a good example of how a journalist's true skill is not what they quote, but what they ask.

 

[LandR]

I think it was just a really poor joke. I don't think she actually thought for a second that global warming causes meteors.

 

[Moon-Spinner]

Hey, maybe Global Warming is the cause of the entropy of the universe. I bet no dang scientist ever thought of that one!!!

 

[Lowpro]

Wait what was she introducing before introducing Bill Nye? It almost seems like the meteor thing was mixed in with the Northeastern Blizzard so I wonder if there was a mixup in communication?

Not trying to be a devil's advocate but there seems like a disjointed discussion between the blizzard and this meteor. Or maybe she just is really dumb >.> but I cannot allow myself to believe she's that dumb

 

[geni]

I think it's reasonable to expect a grade school knowledge of astronomy from someone who is allegedly a journalist.

Why? Thats not what the free market produces at the present time. News anchors are chosen for speaking ability, looks and ability to follow instructions. General knowlage is less important. Scientific knowledge is of even less important. After all the clip from a market perspective is an interview of a celebrity scientists talking about a science sounding subject. Its actual scientific content is near zero.

 

[LandR]

Wait what was she introducing before introducing Bill Nye? It almost seems like the meteor thing was mixed in with the Northeastern Blizzard so I wonder if there was a mixup in communication?

Not trying to be a devil's advocate but there seems like a disjointed discussion between the blizzard and this meteor.

She had just done a piece about the storm and how when we have big storms people wonder if its an effect of global warming. She then went to a Nye with that lead in.

I think it was just a terrible attempt at a joke and trying to badly link her segments.

 

[Ladewig]

I think it was just a really poor joke. I don't think she actually thought for a second that global warming causes meteors.

A very plausible explanation. Especially given that anchors love to attempt to be funny or witty as they transition to a different segment.


I am on the fence as to how serious she was.


Oh, and the meteoric-event joke was very lame.

 

[godless dave]

Why? Thats not what the free market produces at the present time. News anchors are chosen for speaking ability, looks and ability to follow instructions. General knowlage is less important. Scientific knowledge is of even less important.

Yes, that's precisely what I'm complaining about.

 

[Lowpro]

Oh, and the meteoric-event joke was very lame.

They have to make lame jokes; all the good ones wouldn't be able to make the air >.>

"That's a big ass-teroid" and all...but then she'd just be vilified for not calling it by it's proper name, a "big meat-eor about to plow it's way through into the Earth and exploding its bits all over the terrain in one big money shot......."

Well I guess those are lame too. Shoulda gone with the "It'll come close but still miss, like my high school prom night"

 

[Brown]

Points to Bill for pointing out the link between "meteorology" and "meteor." One wonders if that wasn't a cutesy set-up.

 

[Sam.I.Am]

Why? The rather limited "people with more than a passing interest in NEOs" market is largely web based rather than TV based so there is little point in spending money trying to cater to it.

In any case trying to judge the intelligence of the anchor from a few seconds of footage isn't very viable.

She clearly had a less than average grade school level of understanding of where rocks from space come from and what might cause them to get here. "Meteors and Meteorology? Sounds about the same and we were just talking about global warming because of the storm so lets run with that." is not what one expects to hear coming out of the mouth of someone who is supposed to at least have a basic level of understanding of the topic before asking such a pointed question.

I can easily picture in my mind the cringing in the producers booth when she said that... Or laughing their collective butts off as they fed her the question via teleprompter and she asked it. Take your pick, either one doesn't reflect very well on her.

 

[The Don]

Sometimes when I hear a particularly asinine question it makes me doubt the intelligence of the questioner but in some cases the dumb question has been asked so that the interviewee can get a specific point across.

Though in this case, perhaps not.

 

[Belz...]

Why? The rather limited "people with more than a passing interest in NEOs" market is largely web based rather than TV based so there is little point in spending money trying to cater to it.

Yeah, it's not like communicating clear, consistent and true information to viewers is important.

 

[Lowpro]

Yeah, it's not like communicating clear, consistent and true information to viewers is important.

Hehe sigworthy if I could get the context to work.