Are you sure he is one of "us"? I remember he got into being CNN's space correspondent because of that poor guy who got killed in a car accident in 1998. He at least was genuinely interested in space.
I have watched O'Brien make way too many mistakes when he reports on space events. Perhaps he does have some genuine interest, but he seems way more out of his league than anything else.
Most reporters are communications majors and would prefer to cover politics and become the next Woodward and Bernstein than be known as a space "nut". Walter Cronkite was a proud exception to this rule.
Maybe I'm just being nostalgic, but I miss the days of Jules Bergman. When I think of the Apollo missions watching them on TV, his voice often comes to mind.
So, what news reporters are out there today who have a genuine interest in and knowledge of space and astronomy?
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- may you soar high
- Paul Allen on SETI and SpaceShipOne
- Congratulations to the whole Spaceshipone team!
- Mike Melvill's pilot biography
- Sounds like Mike reached 100 kilometers high
- Serious control malfunction
- YES!...YES!...YES!...HE DID IT!...CONFIRMATION! :-) :-) :-)
- Once again, the media failed to cover a historic event.
- CNN's Miles O'Brian looks like he is stoned