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   From: lumpy@digitalcartography.com   
      
   obviouslydelusional wrote:   
   > This is a really good lesson in tabloid journalism...   
      
   Perhaps that's why the producers chose the guide   
   that they did. He's well known for blurring the   
   line between fact and fiction and delights in   
   "investigating with the heart instead of the head".   
      
   I would think there are only two ways for any current   
   day reporter to approach the subject of A51 -   
      
   ONE would be "What's all the talk about aliens?"   
   meaning they would be interested in getting honest   
   facts about the base. Essentially disproving any   
   of the talk of aliens.   
      
   The OTHER would be "Take us as far as you can   
   toward the idea that there are aliens out there   
   and let us hypothesize about the rest". Meaning they   
   want their audience to believe in the unbelievable.   
      
   This episode sounds like the latter.   
      
   In a way, it's hard to blame them. Their demographics   
   likely don't want to hear stories about some investigations   
   that Glenn and others did a decade or two ago. That kind of   
   story becomes the "story of the investigators" rather than   
   the story of the base itself.   
      
   Tha "alien angle" is certainly sexier and more exciting   
   than "it's a secure military base where they test airplanes".   
      
      
   Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke   
      
   www.n0eq.com   
      
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