What..?? spaceflight.com & space.com is mainstream media? Where is the coverage from CNN, CNBS, MSNBC, Bloomberg, LAT, WaPo, WSJ, NYT...?? What is happening now is ground breaking.
I strongly encourage you to step away from the narrative and instead consider reality and evidence.
1. Seriously, all you need to do is
google it. There's plenty of big outlet coverage on Inspiration 4, both in recent days as well as months back. Time did a piece a month ago. Hell, they were on friggin
The Today Show when the mission was announced.
2. For the virgin or BO launches, generally the extent of the big outlet coverage was
day of headlines to the tune of "billionaire is going to huck himself into space". In some cases the coverage was even relegated to after the fact "billionaire hucked himself into space" headlines. Its not like there was some frenzy leading up to the launches. I can't stress this enough, but despite what you want to believe there's no discernible difference in big outlet coverage for this mission.
3. Importantly, Inspiration 4 IS NOT GROUNDBREAKING. For most people [the few that even know about it] it is another billionaire buying a huck into space, just with a better crafted supporting cast than having Jeff's brother
what's-his-name in the right seat.
4. Doth we forget the massive media swirl [rightly so] surrounding the first crew mission? THAT was the mission that was groundbreaking. That coverage
dwarfed what Virgin and BO received.
The moment the slightest hiccup happens, you will see wall to wall coverage from these same outfits, on ego maniac billionaire Musk who has no regard to security or human life... They will be calling for his head and cancellation of all NASA and Airforce contracts.
This is seriously dangerous, Fox News level mongering.
Of course there will be a media circus around a major anomaly. Like it or not, that's what we call
news. And of course there will be a few opinion pieces that call to shut down SpaceX. That's what we call
jumping to conclusions--you know, exactly what some did after Apollo 1. What's important is that we not legitimize nefarious (or even just uninformed) coverage by Trumping up someone's clickbait nothing burger into a prime rib.
I know this is hard for some, but it is also hyper important--and incumbent upon us as the SpaceX fanbase--to not marginalize or reject otherwise legitimate analysis/criticisms regarding said hypothetical anomaly (or any other unfortunate circumstance). It doesn't do any good to craft some alternate reality narrative around a legitimate analysis, framing it as some kind of hit piece that doesn't bring anything else to the table.
Facts are.
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Congrats SpaceX on another nominal launch. (Nominal just doesn’t seem right to describe it in regular speak!)
