[TowerTalk] PBS documentary

[Jim Brown]

On 3/23/2012 7:09 AM, Jim Lux wrote:
> Wireless Estimator has a column (from a week before the 21st) with
> various and sundry industry people expressing concerns and talking about
> prohibiting anyone from talking to the media.

Frontline is a program that does in depth investigative journalism on a 
broad variety of topics. Everything I've seen from their work appears to 
have been well researched and fairly presented.

That said, I have found even the best of journalists are usually out of 
their depths when attempting to cover technical issues, for which they 
are generally poorly educated.  As a result, they tend to fall into the 
trap of treating science as if it is a matter of opinion, and resort to 
quoting those on all sides of any issue as if each had equal weight.  
This can be highly problematic when there are "real scientists" 
presenting well understood and accepted scientific truths and others 
representing vested interests contradicting them.

73, Jim K9YC