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The Willies
WASHINGTON POST GETS AN EARFUL AFTER UFO REVELATIONS[/color]
by Joe Shea
AR Correspondent
Bradenton, Fla.
BRADENTON, Fla., Sept. 28, 2010 -- The Washington Post exists in a stratosphere of journalism inhabited by only half a dozen newspapers in the world, if that. It has an exceptional reputation for fine work, and its original reporting is envied throughout the world - except when it comes to UFOs.
Many have remarked on the apparent inability of major media to report objectively on even a few of the UFO sightings that occur all across this country every day. Anyone familiar with the UFO reporting site MUFON.com or the daily UFO Examiner has quickly come to the conclusion that there are baffling events taking place in the world's skies that are unexplained, and insofar as major media are concerned, are usually unreported.
Real
A British pilot sees a mile-wide UFO
While it's difficult to say what a serious approach to ufology would entail, given that all the evidence tends to be photographic and infinitely malleable in our digital age, the United Nations is said by England's Daily Mail to be ready to appoint a Malaysian scientist as the official representative of the human race should aliens ever openly visit Earth (she has denied it). And tens of millions of Americans believe that day will come.
Every once in a while, an incontrovertible sighting like the Jan. 8, 2008, Stephensville, Tex., incident will get respectful reporting, and so do decisions by official bodies like the British Ministry of Defense and the Vatican when they release document troves or make an official statement on the topic, respectively. But the media generally do not cover the subject with respect, and editors usually don't let reporters do so when they'd like to give it a try.
Today, the Washington Post carried a strange, whimsical story by Metro section columnist John Kelly in which he seemed to report more on his gustatory choices than the lengthy press conference he attended at the National Press Club yesterday (see CNN's live coverage below left). There, seven retired military men spoke frankly and clearly about a wide range of UFO sightings over their Minuteman rocket silos and other nuclear weapons storage sites in the United States. For Kelly, it was all a big joke.
In contrast, here's how one Gannett newspaper, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, covered the story:
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The Willies
WASHINGTON POST GETS AN EARFUL AFTER UFO REVELATIONS[/color]
by Joe Shea
AR Correspondent
Bradenton, Fla.
BRADENTON, Fla., Sept. 28, 2010 -- The Washington Post exists in a stratosphere of journalism inhabited by only half a dozen newspapers in the world, if that. It has an exceptional reputation for fine work, and its original reporting is envied throughout the world - except when it comes to UFOs.
Many have remarked on the apparent inability of major media to report objectively on even a few of the UFO sightings that occur all across this country every day. Anyone familiar with the UFO reporting site MUFON.com or the daily UFO Examiner has quickly come to the conclusion that there are baffling events taking place in the world's skies that are unexplained, and insofar as major media are concerned, are usually unreported.
Real
A British pilot sees a mile-wide UFO
While it's difficult to say what a serious approach to ufology would entail, given that all the evidence tends to be photographic and infinitely malleable in our digital age, the United Nations is said by England's Daily Mail to be ready to appoint a Malaysian scientist as the official representative of the human race should aliens ever openly visit Earth (she has denied it). And tens of millions of Americans believe that day will come.
Every once in a while, an incontrovertible sighting like the Jan. 8, 2008, Stephensville, Tex., incident will get respectful reporting, and so do decisions by official bodies like the British Ministry of Defense and the Vatican when they release document troves or make an official statement on the topic, respectively. But the media generally do not cover the subject with respect, and editors usually don't let reporters do so when they'd like to give it a try.
Today, the Washington Post carried a strange, whimsical story by Metro section columnist John Kelly in which he seemed to report more on his gustatory choices than the lengthy press conference he attended at the National Press Club yesterday (see CNN's live coverage below left). There, seven retired military men spoke frankly and clearly about a wide range of UFO sightings over their Minuteman rocket silos and other nuclear weapons storage sites in the United States. For Kelly, it was all a big joke.
In contrast, here's how one Gannett newspaper, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, covered the story:
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