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Come on Up (to the ISS) You're the Next Contestant

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-wanna-play dept.

Ender writes "The Voice of America and the NY times (Free registration, yetti, yatta ...) are running articles informing us that the Russian space Agency Rosaviakosmos has an agreement with Moscow to send a TV contest winner to the International Space Station. All contestants would train for space flight during the programs and this would show the audience how cosmonauts are trained prior to their space flight." Boy bands are ineligible.

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  1. Payola :-) by viper21 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm sure that the Russian Mafia will get involved here.

    Who bets that Lance Bass pays them off to 'secure' his contest win. It would probably be easier than doing it the 'right' way :-)

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  2. Re:Bob Barker by Anonymous+Cowrad · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What do you have against Bob Barker?

    I'm just asking cause he's my hero. He's a snappy dresser, always surrounded by foxy ladies. He's got that $100 bill in his pocket in case you get the price right. He spays and/or neuters his pets.

    Don't get me started on the skinny microphone.

    Bob Barker. Original pimp.

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  3. Please do not link to VOA... by guttentag · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    ...Just because Google news provides a disproportionate number of links to its stories. Google news has no concept of news value or attribution. Link to VOA if it really contributes something, but in general:
    • VOA stories often read like federal government press releases because (guess what?) it's owned and operated by the federal government.
    • VOA's reporting is generally just garbage. Reading their stories reminds me of those people who flunked out of JOUR 101 because they didn't show up.
    The reporter who wrote this story did no work work of his own... he wrote the story based on a press release and stories written by other news organizations.

    First he quotes Russia's Interfax news agency, which quotes the television station's press release. He couldn't even bother to read the press release himself, which means he has no insight into this story, which explains why it is only six sentences long! Then at the end, the article notes, "Some information for this report provided by AFP."

    We would have been better off reading the press release itself, or an AP story. Diversity of news sources is a good thing that should be encouraged on slashdot, but not at the expense of quality.

    This is not a troll. All I'm saying is link to primary or knowledgeable impartial secondary sources -- not clueless, biased quaternary sources.