[AZ-Observing] Re: Mercury

> Journalists must choose between the technically correct and 
> the evocative, every day. The good newspeople use words that 
> add more as pictures than they lose in technical accuracy. 

I get what you are saying about trying to minimize distortion of the story
as it passes through the hands of the general media, but if a story doesn't
start out accurate, it's not going to come out accurate. Using the wrong
terminology in a release is just shoddy work. Good news writing should be
factually accurate as well as concise. 

Otherwise, why not say "the Messenger spacecraft will be manned by specially
trained hamsters who will operate the onboard cameras"? That certainly
presents more evocative images than reality and is pretty much just as true
as being "blasted by 700 degree heat".
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