In this day and age of FOX news and opinion based journalism, I didn't think our media could drop much further. I stand corrected. What editor in their right mind approved this trash? Is a lack of critical thinking a requirement in today's newsroom?

I'm still trying to find an email or phone number to tell CNN what I think about this.

Discovery even has the show A Haunting. Anything to keep them from showing their only two good shows, Mythbusters and Cash Cab.
TAPS are saps!
TAPS are saps!

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

'Tis the season of HalloWOO!

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Yes. CNN has been sliding down into the pit with the rest of the trash networks. It may be now that they are all on the same gutter level. Sad really.

Can we start our own TV station?

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

I already suggested the name "The Accuracy Channel" --nothing but provable facts. Maybe we could get Discovery to sell us Mythbusters once we get going...

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

And Time Warp Trio from Discovery Kids.

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

I think I'm going to give the NY Times website a try. CNN has been irritating me for some time now.

CNN has been sliding down into the pit? That would seem to indicate that they were once better than other major media outlets. IMHO, they never were. As mentioned in a previous post, I check out their news articles a few times a day (NY Times is the other one I occasionally read), but you still have to take their articles with a grain of salt. If you read for more than face value, usually you can still pick up on the general truths behind the articles. Though it's not uncommon to find that the vital details are very much left at the curb.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

These types of stories are what in the newspaper publishing world are called "feature" or "human interest" as opposed to "hard news." I could see editors arguing that the fact that such "ghost hunters" exist and get regular calls from people makes a story in and of itself, whether or not there are such things as ghosts--especially at this time of year. Remember, a lot of these networks also pass off "celebrity" news as news coverage when this is really nothing more than entertainment, and they don't limit this to just one season.

Actually I can see newspaper editors being contacted in the middle of the night and being threatened for wanting to cover a certain story and being coerced into running so-called human interest stories that do nothing to embiggen the smallest man.

Or newspapers and other news media are savvy to the fact that the majority of people aren't interested in the news of the world at large and the only reason they have a job is because they sell advertising not because their journalism actually provokes or enlightens the masses.

You may be right. To borrow a line from the movie Fargo, "I'm not going to debate you, Fazor".

The last two days I've been getting my news from NYTimes.com. I'm pleased so far. They actually have articles that you can READ - imagine that.

It's a good site, and I have it bookmarked. But I have special niche sites to get information about my esoteric interests.

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

It's Halloween. Relax. And at least they advocate a scientific approach to the ghost problem.

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" -- Charles Darwin

First, turn off all the lights and shoot everything through night vision cameras...

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

It was hardly scientific.

Instead of science, they used sciencyness.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Then, have a crew member run through the field of view and your ratings will soar...

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

...Then have everyone start shouting, running and rapidly waving the cameras around to make sure everyone knows you "saw" something.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Then you hope James Randi never watches your show.

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"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song