Sep 24 2008
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UFOs & the Media
Micah Hanks is a friend of mine, and the voice and the brains behind The Gralien Report. Micah has just posted a new article that delves into the issue of UFOs, the media, and public reaction (or, rather, the decline of that same reaction) to the UFO controversy.
In part, Micah says:
I’ve brought up in previous Gralien Report blogs how strange it is that, today, more reports of UFO sightings seem to cause less public interest in the matter. What I mean by this is that, with the major media overhaul of today, courtesy of several different news channels feeding 24-7 coverage of everything newsworthy (and many things that aren’t) via print, television, radio, satellite, and Internet, we no longer have the “breaking news” of yesteryear. Granted, there are still “hot” stories, but they aren’t the kind of thing that you often see interrupting your regularly scheduled program like in the bygone days. After all, why interrupt your MTV reality programs, etc, with breaking coverage when you could go to an all news, all the time station a few channels up the dial?
But how does this affect UFO reports? In my mind, it’s simple: True, the media reports on UFOs and unexplained phenomena daily (trust me, if you don’t agree, try signing up for a Google-alert for the word “UFO”). Still, it seems to be that the amount of information we receive from media sources daily has made us a bit apathetic in response to all things “newsworthy”. Therefore, even if there is actually more coverage of UFO related stories in the news today, we seem to pay attention to it less, lending to statements like “UFOs were seen all the time in the 1970s, but you don’t hear about them as much today.”
And here’s the rest of his post.
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September 24th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Well the Stephensville? sighting was a HUGE story. I remember being in the evangelical drop-in center surreptiously in full-lotus and a young female asked the younger Native American male if he had heard about it. She was surprised by his affirmative answer and then she went on to remind him of the story he told about big foot or something. I’m not making this up so please don’t do a cut-up of this post. haha.
September 25th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Hmm, infotainment fatigue. Clearly you can’t trust mainstream news media, the New York Times deserves its nick name “Pravda” for instance.
If flying saucers appear on the TV news no one will care but if they fly over your house it’s a different story, so to speak.
A bugbear of mine is, “how do you know what you don’t know”? Example: everyone knows that angels play harps, a little digging and you find the source of the myth in medieval altarpieces and paintings. A little more digging and you find out that medieval harps sound like farting sitars but how many people know that? Who in their right mind would associate an angel with a farting sitar? What anomalies, obvious or not, are being overlooked that can change everything like Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shifting anomalies?
Aristarchus figured out that the earth orbited the sun 1700 years before Copernicus, what clues are we not paying attention to regarding UFOs?
September 29th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Further to unquestioned assumptions and how do you find out what you don’t know you don’t know, here are some Gothic harp samples:
http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/amoroso.mp3
http://masakoart.com/LaSpagna.mp3
http://triplepipe.net/MP3s/measures/11001011.mp3
September 29th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Whoops, the second address is wrong, the correct one is:
http://masakoart.com/La Spagna.mp3