Creationists Demand Airtime On Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos'
This story just further illustrates how corporate and uninformative our media has become. With the advent of false equivalency being substituted for an objective and unbiased goal in media, we now have creationists demanding equal time to push superstition on a level playing field with science.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/22/creationists-airtime-cosmos-neil-degrasse-tyson_n_5009234.html
Creationist groups have made yet another complaint about Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey."
Since the show debuted on FOX this month, creationists have not kept quiet about the science documentary series. What's the problem now?
While some have shunned the reboot of Carl Sagan's 1980 PBS series altogether, other creationists now have made a request: equal airtime.
Appearing on "The Janet Mefferd Show" on Thursday, Danny Faulkner of Answers In Genesis voiced his complaints about "Cosmos" and how the 13-episode series has described scientific theories, such as evolution, but has failed to shed light on dissenting creationist viewpoints. He said:
Tyson recently addressed providing balance when it comes to discussing science. In an interview with CNN, the astronomer criticized the media for giving "equal time" to those who oppose widely accepted scientific theories.
"I think the media has to sort of come out of this ethos that I think was in principle a good one, but doesn't really apply in science. The ethos was, whatever story you give, you have to give the opposing view, and then you can be viewed as balanced," Tyson said, adding, "you don't talk about the spherical earth with NASA and then say let's give equal time to the flat-earthers."
WhiteTara
(29,710 posts)ended the fairness doctrine so that our airwaves could be filled with hate speech radio? F them.
Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)WhiteTara
(29,710 posts)lightly) that they thought it was a great idea to have R*sh on 24 hours a day with no rebuttal. Too stupid to having voting rights.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)ads. Even if repealed, it wouldn't apply to a science show. Or a show purely about creationism, which those people could certainly underwrite if they wanted to.
w0nderer
(1,937 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
wasn't that the equal time?
fairness doctrine wasn't exclusively political
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)"holders of broadcast licenses [were required] to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was, in the Commission's view, honest, equitable and balanced."
Evolution, cosmology, and science in general do NOT constitute controversial issues, despite what the ignorant masses want to believe. They've spent so long saying we need to "teach the controversy" that they've apparently convinced many who should know better that there is some controversy about evolution and other science matters. It's not helped by the mainstream media all too often presenting some minor and obscure and often wrong objection to something factual as if it had actual equal standing to the facts.
Redfairen
(1,276 posts)w0nderer
(1,937 posts)The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was, in the Commission's view, honest, equitable and balanced. The FCC decided to eliminate the Doctrine in 1987, and in August 2011 the FCC formally removed the language that implemented the Doctrine.[1]
Mojo Electro
(362 posts)The correct response to "Creationists Demand Airtime On Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos'"
is "What the fuck for?"
caraher
(6,278 posts)Could make the whole thing worthwhile
imthevicar
(811 posts)randr
(12,412 posts)Mojo Electro
(362 posts)progressoid
(49,990 posts)Sweet Zombie Jesus.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Something could be deranged, I bet.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)AAO
(3,300 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)I would hope that Neil deGrasse Tyson would quit. I hope he has a clause in his contract that he will not have to put up with this.
And we want equal time on talk radio and in the media. Tit for tat.
Botany
(70,504 posts)..... K- 12 schools, colleges, tv shows, radio programs, christian music venues,
in politics, and in their churches so HELL NO they don't get to go on a science
based program and get another chance to sell their snake oil.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Sure, YOU say it isn't going to rain tomorrow, but what if we do something to piss off the thunder god???
blackspade
(10,056 posts)1) There is no requirement of 'equal' time on a science show. It's a science show, not family bible time.
2) All thirteen episodes are done so tough shit adding something to it.
I don't even know why I bother, these teahadists are lunatics.
Botany
(70,504 posts)So the earth isn't the center of the universe?
blackspade
(10,056 posts)phantom power
(25,966 posts)Or Benny Hinn?
Or Hour of Power?
Or any of the other hundred-or-so mega-church religious freak shows on TV?
Fucking ridiculous
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)That's equal time enough. Fuck 'em.
lastlib
(23,226 posts)But as a competing theory, theirs only competes in the minor leagues, with astrology, alchemy, and flat-earth geography. Sorry, bozos, you're too small to play with Neil and Carl. Go back to your sandbox. And STFU.
DeadLetterOffice
(1,352 posts)...what the fuck people in other countries must think about us as a nation when wackos like this guy open their mouths and paint all Americans with teh stoooopid brush.
imthevicar
(811 posts)ancianita
(36,055 posts)If this country had broadly committed to at least some college for everyone decades ago, none of this false equivalency crapy would have gotten this far.
imthevicar
(811 posts)But I read, ( I used to read 3 newspapers a day, But that's another story for another day.) and have an open mind, and don't believe in fairy tails. But the most Important of these is READ!
ancianita
(36,055 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)Don't they know that?
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)and never the twain SHOULD meet.
rocktivity
JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)Initech
(100,070 posts)Although if they did try to learn something they wouldn't believe in creationism would they?
3catwoman3
(23,978 posts)...and put them where the star that warms our billions-of-years-old planet don't shine.
Demands, my ass. WTH do they think they are to be demanding anything from a science show?
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Then I would consider it. Until then you might as well ask for equal time for all religions. Yep all creations, bring 'em on and let them fight it out.
Kber
(5,043 posts)We haven't even begun to give science "equal time" yet.
Talk to me in year 6650. (Approx 5000 years post Coprenicus).
hatrack
(59,585 posts)And then they can take their dinosaur-and-pony show to Fox and sell it.
Magic of the Marketplace, baby!!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)What more do they need?