The real story of Galileo is way beyond the orbit of our media's understanding

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Coverage of the launch in Kazakhstan of a satellite intended to pave the way for the EU's Galileo global positioning system again highlighted one of the media's strangest failures in 2005. Our newspapers and television simply recycled all the familiar claims about how this rival to America's GPS system will help "improve air traffic control'', enable ambulances and fire engines to arrive more quickly, and give us all easier access via our mobile phones to vital information about restaurants and cinema programmes.

Yet, as any regular reader of this column will know, such propagandist trivia ...

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