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   From: lumpy@digitalcartography.com   
      
   obviouslydelusional wrote:   
   > I think you might be a bit harsh in your assessment, and it comes down   
   > to the difference between reporters (the real deal) and tabloid   
   > shows.  The tabloid shows can take your quotes and make you say   
   > exactly what they want.  If Peter Merlin were the tour guide instead,   
   > the producers would have spliced together snippets of the conversation   
   > to have him say "There are UFOs at Groom".  There's no burden of   
   > objectivity there.   
      
   But they didn't choose Peter Merlin. They chose a "guide"   
   that advertises his "I want to believe" stance.   
      
   Merlin would have focused on plane crashes.   
   Glenn/Chuck would have focused on challenging the   
   boundary and/or finding out public or non-public   
   info about the base, it's existance within the   
   tax structure of the county/state/fed, the toxic   
   issue etc.   
      
   Even if the producer were so unethical as to splice together   
   "There are UFOs at Groom" they'd be much better off with   
   a guide that believes there are UFOs or at least doesn't   
   want to disprove them.   
      
   I'm not putting all the blame on the guide. The   
   producers got what they wanted.   
      
      
   Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke   
      
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