Re:I guess they could... (Score 1)

"The real problem is that the media are mostly staffed by people too stupid to understand rational logic, and they have a vested interest in making genuine science look bad/over complex/boring. Its not an accident that the cast of Friends are made to look good, while scientists are protrayed like "Beaker" in Sesame Street. Its because if intelligence is good, then the journallists/actors/TV anchor men etc are bad. They are not going to stand for that, are they?" You make interesting points. I'm a journalism major, and as the reporter who covers the "tech/IT" beat on our campus paper, I'll try to give an "insider's" opinion. For me, I try to be 100 percent accurate every time I write a story. If the network or a core piece of software went down, I want to know why, and I want to explain why. Of course, sometimes things do go over my head. I don't have the knowledge many of you have, but it's my responsibilty to get you to come down to mine and most normal people's intelligence. That's my job.