Why is so many "educated" people don't understand that the media (TV, newspapers, whatever) show you want they want you to see. How do you think a program about large trucks and even larger truckers driving up and down a very boring, very cold road gets on prime time TV?
Answer, clever editing and dramatic music.
Same deal for the bouncing bomb program...interesting though it was, it is the job of the editor to spice it up for the larger audience, most of whom haven't a scoopies about the safety regimes for trials flying.
Give the guy a break...he probably spent days going over the safety procedures and parameters...wouldn't have made for great TV to show all of that though would it.
PS At the risk of treading on my own point...
Re the release point and the hard impact. Yep spotted that.. I wonder if the boffin briefed effectively. His comms skills did not appear to be all that.