A Second Look at the "Hole in the Sun": Lessons from a Media Flub

What's up with that crazy giant hole on the sun? That's the question I was addressing during my short appearance on Fox News last week. Or rather, it's the question I was trying to address. My explanation contained a few poor word choices, which resulted in a confusing and misleading description of solar activity. That is the danger of live television: once a conversation goes off track, it's hard to get back in real time, with only 100 seconds to go. These days nothing on TV really vanis