Sounds like a great trailer for a movie!vatican struck by lightning... meteor showers... last pope... hmmmm....
Sadly this is a HUGE problem with Journalists. Their job is to report the news but not know the news. Jouralism students are often not required to take science courses. As such they don't understand the scientific method. They don't understand how these concepts interrelate, or don't. Thus, we see questions being asked that indicate that they really don't know this stuff. It happens all too frequently in journalism. It's a reflection of our population as a whole. As much as we as a nation love our computers and smartphones there's some serious scientific illiteracy. That's why we see 46% of people believing in creationism and why we see 51% of people not believing the climate can change.
More of a "News Anchor" problem really. They don't care and they don't have to care. They are generally paid a great deal of money to read the news and if they don't read it right then they have a lot to lose. On the flip side, they get paid so much they start thinking that they are geniuses because why else would they be paid so much? Television news particularly is a very distorting filter.
Ah, now it all makes sense! It's those evil Americans up to their dirty tricks again!
Yes, there are idiots everywhere.
Ultranationalists tend to be that way.
Idiots tend to be that way. Ultra nationalism is not itself idiocy. It's unpleasant and dangerous to internationalists but it does not of itself constitute idiocy.
Putting the nation above all else, including yourself and family, doesn't sound idiotic?
