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This is why newspapers are fading away.
October 15, 2009 | 04:42 PM

I don't believe I've heard anyone say 100 construction jobs on a solar telescope as "a misplaced priority." It's 100 folks working.

Michael Moore on the other hand is all problem and no solution. His dramatic stances in front of silent buildings with a megaphone reminds me more of a barker than a liberal spokesman.

Lastly, fact checking was a serious business in the press. Not anymore. Perspective and place in history have no place in the 4th estate. What has happened to that?

Talking away the Apollo program as a salve to the violence of Vietnam and the dissent of Woodstock is absurd. Simply put, you had people in both places at the same time up to their noses in mud wondering what the hell was going on. We seem to forget the Killing Fields began after Vietnam ended.

The Apollo program launched their own version of LCRoss. At Saturn VB booster weighing 35,000 lbs (3.5 times more than LCRoss) in 1970. Why wasn't this mentioned in the article? I found this tidbit on the NASA website in minutes.

I'm sorry to say ideology doesn't sell newspapers, story's do. This was all the former. If I want my party propaganda I'm more than capable of finding it without Mr. Parson's or Mr. Moore's wisdom. I only wish there was more fact and perspective than flummery.

Ed McEneney