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Re:SpaceX Iridium-3 Mission Launching Streaming by Narretz on Monday October 09, 2017 @09:18AM (#15433504)
Overall, this is a good thing. What's bad is that the next time a rocket doesn't make the landing (or worse, cannot submit the payload), this will be all over the news as a failure. At least in Germany, a failure would get a mention on the frontpage of tagesschau.de (portal of the state-sponsored media channel), while a success doesn't.
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Re:SpaceX Iridium-3 Mission Launching Streaming by avar on Monday October 09, 2017 @09:31AM (#15433601)
If Lufthansa crashes a plane tomorrow in Berlin that'll also make the German news, while them flying hundreds of flights a day doesn't make it because it's not noteworthy.

It's the news because it's notable or out of the ordinary.

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Re:SpaceX Iridium-3 Mission Launching Streaming by grecy on Monday October 09, 2017 @09:52AM (#15433756)
> It's the news because it's notable or out of the ordinary.

While that may once have been true, what consists of "news" today is simply whatever will grab people's attention. It's all about ratings.

It certainly does not have to be notable or out of the ordinary.

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