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Giant leap or maybe not so much…

Scott Jagow Jul 22, 2009

This is pretty amusing (or depressing). As I was writing about the space program yesterday, I was thinking, I wonder what the media coverage would be like for the moon landing if it happened today? And then I found this:

From Slate:

I think I might prefer the simplicity of the original coverage. On an NPR story, someone posted this picture from their website of found film:

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