# Fucking News Managers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 19, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958 "2012-08-19T14:13:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/1 "2012-08-19T14:13:12Z")
The USS COnstitution is actually under sail today for the second time in over 100 years and it is barely mentioned on the internet, no live feed, barely any news items … Ya think people might like a nice human interest story that is not related to death, destruction, war or politics?:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/2 "2012-08-19T14:23:00Z")
But where’s the [del]fun[/del] profit in that? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/3 "2012-08-19T14:42:49Z")
[http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201\_162-57495635/uss-constitution-to-sail-under-own-power-for-second-time-in-over-a-century/](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57495635/uss-constitution-to-sail-under-own-power-for-second-time-in-over-a-century/) > **[HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News](https://www.huffpost.com/?err_code=404&err_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2012%2F08%2F17%2Fuss-constitution-to-sail_n_1798381.html)** > > Read the latest headlines, news stories, and opinion from Politics, Entertainment, Life, Perspectives, and more. I agree that the feeds are spotty. On the other hand, it has not happened, yet, and given that it needs winds in the limited range between 5 and 15 mph to happen, maybe they are just hanging back to report it after the fact. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/4 "2012-08-19T15:19:10Z")
Great news. Why is this in the Pit though? ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/5 "2012-08-19T15:29:32Z")
I felt the same way about the latest Mats Rover landing. I watched it streaming live on my computer while the networks decided it was more important to show highlights of Olympic events that had happened 12 hours earlier and re-runs of Letterman. It would have made for amazing television: a sequence of events that each had to happen perfectly in order to carry out a seemingly implausible method of landing the 1 ton rover gently to the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/6 "2012-08-19T15:37:46Z")
> [@fumster](#): > > I felt the same way about the latest Mats Rover landing. I watched it streaming live on my computer while the networks decided it was more important to show highlights of Olympic events that had happened 12 hours earlier and re-runs of Letterman. > > It would have made for amazing television: a sequence of events that each had to happen perfectly in order to carry out a seemingly implausible method of landing the 1 ton rover gently to the ground. Problem is, I don’t think anyone cared about the Rover. When I told people about it the next day, I got a lot of “Are you _still_ talking about that”. “I’m not _still_ talking about it. I told you about it when I first heard about it, I mentioned the other day that it was going to land soon, and I’m telling you know that it happened successfully” To the layman that doesn’t really care about science/space stuff, the feed would have been ungodly boring to watch. Hour and hour of a bunch of guys sitting in a room mumbling some gibberish at each other, a guy with a mohawk and a cartoon of a spinny thing. Most people would have changed the channel. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/7 "2012-08-19T16:09:15Z")
It’s a publicity stunt for a floating museum. Color me unimpressed. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/8 "2012-08-19T17:37:40Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Problem is, I don’t think anyone cared about the Rover. When I told people about it the next day, I got a lot of “Are you _still_ talking about that”. “I’m not _still_ talking about it. I told you about it when I first heard about it, I mentioned the other day that it was going to land soon, and I’m telling you know that it happened successfully” To the layman that doesn’t really care about science/space stuff, the feed would have been ungodly boring to watch. Hour and hour of a bunch of guys sitting in a room mumbling some gibberish at each other, a guy with a mohawk and a cartoon of a spinny thing. Most people would have changed the channel. I disagree. In the Olympics they create drama out of a swimming race by showing back stories of the athletes, creating rivalries, and using things like the moving World Record line. The rover landing would have been perfect. Here is Susie Bright, she worked three years on the landing strut assembly. She met her husband working at JPL where he designed the parachute and they have two kids with one more in the way. Will her design work? Three explosive bolts have to deploy at the right time and in the right sequence or a billion dollar project will just be a pile of scrap. If they can make watching cars turn left for 500 miles interesting then this would have been a cinch. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/9 "2012-08-19T17:47:21Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > It’s a publicity stunt for a floating museum. Color me unimpressed. Now, if it attacked some British ships along the way… ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/10 "2012-08-19T17:48:11Z")
This is the kind of story that doesn’t make much sense to run on a national level before it’s happened. Most people aren’t going to travel at the last minute to see it, and there’s nothing to look at anyway. TV camera crews will probably get video of it while it’s underway, and it’ll be on the news tonight once there’s something to look at. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/11 "2012-08-19T17:52:25Z")
_If they can make watching cars turn left for 500 miles interesting_ they can’t and they don’t! but I think with the Mars Rover they certainly could. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/12 "2012-08-19T18:02:59Z")
Heh, I thought it was actually that “The USS COnstitution is actually under \*\*assault \*\*today for the second time in over 100 years” And I was expecting glurge like my crazy Hispanic relative that follows the tea party and racist sources and sends it to me on a daily basis. (You know he is crazy when he ignores that in the case of the racist sources they would not have nice designs for people like me and my relative) But The Constitution sailing again is a cool thing for a guy that loves history like me. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/13 "2012-08-19T18:06:54Z")
Also: The HuffPo claimed that it’s the oldest commissioned warship in the world. The [HMS Victory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hms_victory) is older. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/14 "2012-08-19T18:31:19Z")
Is it being crewed by C-List celebrities who may get kicked off? ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/15 "2012-08-19T19:09:59Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Also: The HuffPo claimed that it’s the oldest commissioned warship in the world. The [HMS Victory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hms_victory) is older. That article says the Victory is “the oldest naval ship still in commission”, but that the Constitution is “the oldest commissioned warship still afloat”. The Victory is in dry dock; maybe that’s the distinction? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/16 "2012-08-19T19:17:40Z")
Before I fuck any news managers to get my story on the air, I at least want to ascertain that they are female, not horribly unattractive, open to trading sex for stories, and not likely to cut off my junk. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/17 "2012-08-19T19:22:23Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Ya think people might like a nice human interest story that is not related to death, destruction, war or politics?:dubious: A Warship owned by the US gov’t sailing to commemorate a famous battle doesn’t have anything to do with death, destruction war or politics? Anyhoo, I remember the '97 sail getting coverage (granted I was in Mass. at the time) so I imagine this too will get some reporting when it actually happens. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/18 "2012-08-19T19:28:50Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Now, if it attacked some British ships along the way… We should totally send it to the Indian Ocean to deal with the Somali Pirates. That would fucking rock. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/19 "2012-08-19T19:42:02Z")
The navies of both Canand the USA are sending out ships on tour as part of the bi-centenial commemoration of the War of 1812-1813. The brief sailing of the USS Constitution is a nice event. Pity it is only sailing for ten minutes, but I understand why the do not want to put it at risk. I look forward to the vid. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958/20 "2012-08-19T20:03:32Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > The USS COnstitution is actually under sail today for the second time in over 100 years and it is barely mentioned on the internet, no live feed, barely any news items … > > Ya think people might like a nice human interest story that is not related to death, destruction, war or politics?:dubious: But it was related to the war of 1812. Most Americans don’t really want to be reminded of a war they lost. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-news-managers/631958.md?page=2)