How faithful picture of string theory do the media offer? Let's look at this sample from the last 48 hours or so. ;-)
- "EinsteinFest" at the Perimeter Institute attracts 18,000 people
 - Vanishing Netgear rebate proves additional dimensions predicted by string theory
 - India Daily has another experimental proof of extra dimensions
 - India Daily had yet another article "String Theory" one day earlier
 - Brian Regan's brain exploded when he watched string theory on PBS
 - It is argued that the rest of the show "Girlfriends" looks like string theory
 - Emerson Quartet that became famous for joining Brian Greene plans to perform Mendelssohn and Mozart
 - Steel string theory is going to perform in Ohio
 - Alan Lightman thinks that artists are like scientists because they also like string theory
 - Ancient neutrinos described in a crackpot paper may prove either loop quantum gravity, string theory, or a required diet for Schrödinger's cat
 - Computer simulations indicate that type IIA vacua with orientifolds of six-tori produce one MSSM-like model per one billion of backgrounds