MONDAY MEDIA ADVANCE EDITION / TURNING BLUE OVER THE RED PLANET

UPDATE: SEE END OF THIS POST FOR NASA'S MYSTERY DISCOVERY

Effects on media types as a result of prolonged breathlessness
while waiting for NASA'S Monday Mars press conference.

WAITING FOR NASA’S BIG MARS BLOCKBUSTER ANNOUNCEMENT

Analysis by Holden DeMayo—Pillar to Post usually saves media news until Monday.  NASA has decided that’s a great idea, too.

On Friday, NASA announced it had a big Mars discovery to announce.  Humanoids who appreciate such news began holding their collective breaths.  Did they find life on Mars?  Did the newly arrived jumper cables work on to reboot the stalled Mars rover? Jimmy Hoffa? Starbucks?

On the other hand, the NASA ploy to wait 48 hours might mean it is a minor event that needs a bit of hype to get it some needed attention.

Let’s face it—the topic possibilities for the Monday press conference are endless.

Media types are secretly hoping it’s a non-event.  Reason is nothing snarks a media boss more than being teased by an organization, where your reporters are supposed to have imbedded impeachable sources.  It forces you to give up your golf weekend running around town trying to find the right source only to realize NASA has decided to have a $100 a plate pot luck dinner to fund a new recovered Saturn 5 rocket museum in Topeka, KS.

But that happenstance pales with the horror of a media competitor actually breaking NASA’s embargo and getting the biggest extra-terrestrial story of all time.  How did they get Jimmy Hoffa up there?

Alas, my bet going in was that NASA was announcing an official date when an earthling would be blasting off to the red planet.  The Mars astronaut event would be a China/Vatican/USA joint venture with Cuba supplying old hubcaps.  Astronaut College is about to be reopened.

Then again, oh, what could it be?

UPDATE:
For NPR's coverage of NASA's press conference on 9-28-15 announcing that running water has been discovered on the red planet at various times in its solar year go to:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/mars-flowing-rivers-briny-water-nasa-satellite-reveals/

However, Google summed it up best: