I'm thrilled they splashed down safely and successfully

[PCIntern]

No buts. My complaint is the media coverage. I was around for Cronkite and Schirra, Huntley, Brinkley, and Frank McGee. They spoke in literate, factual, relevant sentences with great descriptors. They had gentle humor and humanism. They were like your sane, smart uncles.

I just watched three networks and it was the most insipid conversations I’ve ever heard about anything. ABC, CNN, and NBC were the three and I kept skipping around because…BECAUSE…I couldn’t fucking take the repetitive stupidities and dopey interactions.

You think I’m being picky? I heard no fewer than three times the question asked: “What do you think is going through their minds…?”, David Muir, whom I normally like in a crumby way, saying the names of the four astronauts over and over and over again, talking over the flight controllers at Mission Control who were basically narrating the events as they happened, hearing that there was going to be a six minute blackout period FIFTY TIMES within a ten minute period, as though it wasn’t clear the first ten times they said it.

Yeah I know. I’m a putz. But I long for seriousness and erudition. Yes, I know…it’s hopeless…the news folks are not only stenographers, they’re cheerleaders who cannot tolerate unfilled airtime.

[Srkdqltr]

1. Wanted to muzzle Ali Velchi. He just kept talking fast over everyone.

[Ocelot II]

9. At one point I yelled at my TV, "Ali, shut up!"

What he was saying wasn't actually stupid so much as unnecessary, and I wanted to hear the NASA communications.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I found this live report...

https://www.youtube.com/live/52eaHKtX0ks?si=zkrbc6L77F00_A3

This is what local news is showing live in San Diego.

[MerryBlooms]

11. That's the link I've been watching. Just turn off comments 🥰

[BigmanPigman]

18. It's getting dark in San Diego, I wonder why

this wasn't planned to splash down a few hours earlier. They still have to spend a few hours getting the capsule back to the shore.

[hlthe2b]

3. That is the reason I'm watching the official NASA YOUTUBE feed.

Well done.

[PCIntern]

4. I forgot about them.

I’m a moron.

[hlthe2b]

5. Someone else suggested it yesterday or I might have joined you with MSM

[JustAnotherGen]

8. I forgot too

We watched ABC.

Just happy they got up and down alive. I don't care what fantasy Gen Z has about Gen X watching the Challenger . . . I was in my school auditorium watching that day.

Artemis undid that horror.

[VMA131Marine]

6. People are just not as smart as they were in 1969 ...

Apparently…

[a kennedy]

7. C-SPAN as well a great channel to watch it on......

I just want to see them!!!!

[Scrivener7]

10. If you have it, there's a NASA live feed on Roku It's good coverage. They're explaining the "front porch" now.

[Intractable]

12. I've been switching between CNN and MS-NOW. It seems that no other news happened today other than splashdown.

Nothing. Nada.

[PCIntern]

13. This is sufficiently important to warrant coverage

My issue is the quality of the reportage

[Intractable]

16. Not this kind of coverage. And I quote ...

You think I’m being picky? I heard no fewer than three times the question asked: “What do you think is going through their minds…?”, David Muir, whom I normally like in a crumby way, saying the names of the four astronauts over and over and over again, talking over the flight controllers at Mission Control who were basically narrating the events as they happened, hearing that there was going to be a six minute blackout period FIFTY TIMES within a ten minute period, as though it wasn’t clear the first ten times they said it.

[Raine]

17. I enjoyed the break to get to see the splashdown

instead of the same old same old.

[Raine]

14. l don't know how many times l had to hear about the TOILET

troubles!

[FemDemERA]

15. I started with BBC but

gave up on them as they were doing the same thing, incessant talking. Went to NASA Live TV and discovered they were also on Netflix, which I can get on the big screen, so watching that. WAY less chatter.

On https://www.nasa.gov/live/ they listed all these which they said were carrying it...
Stream on YouTube, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Peacock, Netflix, NASA+ (I also found it on C-SPAN)

[mcar]

19. Netflix had the NASA feed. I moved there

It was much better.

[TBF]

20. I watched via you tube (someone had it posted here on DU) -

enjoyed it very much! I was only 2 years old when we originally landed on the moon, and I remember reading about it as a child, but that's it. I found this entire Artemis mission very exciting!

[Hope22]

21. Not picky at all!

I was thankful that everything went as planned because those people could not have navigated a catastrophe. There was no sign of professionalism there.

[róisín_dubh]

22. Thank heavens for the Beeb

Even if they get repetitive, the British accent just makes them sound smarter.
I kid. They had different British astronauts on during the coverage, which was quite good. It managed to keep me up and entertained despite a long day or work and a shift at my second job at my local pub.

[misanthrope]

23. It's not just you

What you're describing is the dumbing down of the Fourth Estate in catering to the corkscrewing acumen of the public at large.