An 'interview' with Ed Moses - opportunity missed.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:15 am
This morning on BBC radio there was a few minutes given to an interview with Ed Moses. Apparently, there is some new Memorandum of Understanding that's been signed between NIF and Appleton/AWE recently (the details of which were not at all discussed).
It was a typically miserable interview which would have further enlighten neither the previously unenlightened, nor the enlightened!
This seems typical for interviews of 'technology' subjects these days. The 'mainstream' is sooo far behind the curve on technology, it is seemingly impossible for journalists to be able to bridge the gap any more.
If you are permitted to receive it outside UK then, if you like, you can hear it at;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/ne ... 585189.stm
(but frankly I'd recommend you don't bother!!)
For the record, I heard beforehand that he was going to be on, so I sent the editorial team the following;
> NIF is a total disaster as a 'fusion energy' project. If you are actually interviewing Ed Moses today, I trust you will drill him hard on all the failed promises, previous debacles and many other total failures it has experienced, more of which are therefore to be expected in the future. For further info, see; http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/nif2/findings.asp and http://fire.pppl.gov/ICF_Happer2.PDF .
and afterwards I followed up with;
> Your interview with Ed Moses was a pitiful piece of 'journalism'. The equivalent interview in politics would have been as ignorant as; '..and here we have a man called Colonel Ghaddafi who says he can bring prosperity to Libya'. You totally whitewashed the prior history of NIF and missed the chance to pull up the Director of NIF to account for all the massive budget over-runs and misleading, misdirections given to the US Senate by NIF management over the past. You needed to probe him on whether the MoU was going to drag on UK budgets in the same way it has uselessly drained US budgets. This was a really bad piece and a missed opportunity with the Director of a project it sounds like you've never ever heard of before, nor put any effort into finding out about.
It was a typically miserable interview which would have further enlighten neither the previously unenlightened, nor the enlightened!
This seems typical for interviews of 'technology' subjects these days. The 'mainstream' is sooo far behind the curve on technology, it is seemingly impossible for journalists to be able to bridge the gap any more.
If you are permitted to receive it outside UK then, if you like, you can hear it at;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/ne ... 585189.stm
(but frankly I'd recommend you don't bother!!)
For the record, I heard beforehand that he was going to be on, so I sent the editorial team the following;
> NIF is a total disaster as a 'fusion energy' project. If you are actually interviewing Ed Moses today, I trust you will drill him hard on all the failed promises, previous debacles and many other total failures it has experienced, more of which are therefore to be expected in the future. For further info, see; http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/nif2/findings.asp and http://fire.pppl.gov/ICF_Happer2.PDF .
and afterwards I followed up with;
> Your interview with Ed Moses was a pitiful piece of 'journalism'. The equivalent interview in politics would have been as ignorant as; '..and here we have a man called Colonel Ghaddafi who says he can bring prosperity to Libya'. You totally whitewashed the prior history of NIF and missed the chance to pull up the Director of NIF to account for all the massive budget over-runs and misleading, misdirections given to the US Senate by NIF management over the past. You needed to probe him on whether the MoU was going to drag on UK budgets in the same way it has uselessly drained US budgets. This was a really bad piece and a missed opportunity with the Director of a project it sounds like you've never ever heard of before, nor put any effort into finding out about.