I've begun explaining the world news this way these days when there is no good answer: "It was in the script." That's particularly while so much is actually scripted. Sometimes scripting is obvious for how seamlessly each episode plays out, such as the Jan. 6 committee hearings. Sometimes it's painfully obvious for the gaffes. Unfortunately, the latter was the case on July 12 for one of the most anticipated good-news events of the century: the release of first images from the James Webb telescope. The feed stuttered and froze. Uplinks to remote locations failed or were slow. The shared screen was actually four screens put together, thus incorporating the horizontal and vertical edges of the frames of each into the images.
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