DISCOVER Blogs reports: " I know a lot of the media do their best when it comes to reporting science and astronomical-related stories, but sometimes they seem to go way out of their way — or, more accurately, not go out of their way at all — to report nonsense.
Case in point: Fox News in New York City. Yesterday, there were UFO reports from all over the city. Not to keep you in suspense, but those UFOs were actually hundreds of balloons released on Broadway to celebrate a visit by Madrid officials. You can see more about this by my friend Ben Radford and at Science-Based Parenting.
Pay attention around 35 seconds in. That star she spends a lot of time talking about is the planet Jupiter."
To see their full story along with further evidence of really awful reporting check out Bad Astronomy.
Published on October 16, 2010 04:08