Media Jumping to Conclusions Before Facts are In

SpaceShip Two at first launch. Courtesy Scaled Composites/Virgin Galactic.

Judging by the shrill and judgmental voices from such outlets as Wired, etc., and this morning’s leap to judgment by the mainstream media about who might be at “fault”, it’s never too early after someone lost their life in an aviation accident to start pointing hopelessly hip fingers of blame at various sources. It sure beats reporting the facts, doesn’t it? (she asked ironically).

Anyway, the facts are slowly coming to light, the investigation is proceeding as it should. Those who are interested in the facts and how they will relate to future aerospace designs will be interested in learning more. Everybody else will have to sustain themselves on the thin gruel of faux outrage.

The investigation is proceeding as it should. I wish the Swift Boat media would take a collective breath and let it happen before its more excitable “journalists” rush to judgment.