NBC & MSNBC get "Doppler Effect" wrong.

[Motown_Johnny]

I saw this in the NBC Nightly News and just watched it again on Chris Hayes' show.

Chris Mclaughin (SP?) is VP of something or other and seems to be presented as some type of expert.


He presents the Doppler Effect as what happens when a train whistle moving toward you gets Louder and when moving away from you gets Quieter.


This is just plain wrong. I can see NBC Nightly News missing this. They may have been rushed to air and had little or nothing else to present. A show being aired almost 2 hours later should have had time to watch that piece of video and see just how wrong it is.


If I wanted crap like this I would watch CNN.


I am assuming most everyone here knows what the Doppler Effect is, but just in case.....

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I think that assumption is correct.

[TroglodyteScholar]

2. Yea, that is fucking crazy

A good response to that explanation would have been, "Neat! I wonder why the pitch seems to change as it moves in relation to my position, too. Isn't that wild???"

[Bosonic]

3. Science is hard

Sheldon: Given the reaction to my costume, this party is a scathing indictment of the American educational system.
Kurt: You're a zebra, right?

[cyberswede]

4. I wondered...and then figured they just simplified it for prime time.

[Logical]

5. Wow, that is scary. nt

[Blue_In_AK]

6. I wish Chris would say EXXON VALDEEZ,

instead of EXXON "Valdez." Everyone in Alaska is snickering.

And I never heard of anyone smoking peyote.

[spanone]

7. i find our media mostly unreliable for any truth telling. they are profiteers.

sadly.

[AngryAmish]

8. There is a reason why they went to journalism school

Science is hard, the poor dears. Don't hurt yourself.

[cthulu2016]

9. Wait... you're saying frequency and volume are not the same thing?

I think I might owe my downstairs neighbors an apology.

They complained about the volume on my stereo so I turned the bass up.