CNN Gives The Moonbats A Boost...

[dudalb]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/17/moon.landing.hoax/index.html

And it is currently the most popular article on the CNN website:eye-poppi

And I have no doubt a feature on the is coming up on CNN itself.

[T.A.M.]

Listen;

if they can cover MJ for 2-3 weeks non stop, this is nothing.

Let them have their 5 microseconds of fame.

TAM:)

[Alt+F4]

This too shall pass. In regard to the JFK assassination the same thing happened in 2003, 1993, 1983 (and probably 1973, but I was too young to remember).

[geni]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/17/moon.landing.hoax/index.html

And it is currently the most popular article on the CNN website:eye-poppi

And I have no doubt a feature on the is coming up on CNN itself.

One of the downsides of the interenet is that news sites can monitor what people actualy read rather than what they claim to read. The result is that they start writeing the kind of articles people are actualy going to read.

[Hokulele]

Actually, that is a pretty good article, as it makes it quite clear that the moonbats are lunatics.

It is pretty cool they quote Phil Plait (current JREF president) at the end, and I <3 Buzz Aldrin.

[Foolmewunz]

CNN Gives The Moonbats A Boost...

Only if you consider (and they likely do) being made out to be total maroons is a "boost".

Often even mainstream articles will use words like "supposedly" when writing up moonbat or other conspiracy stories. CNN opens its first meaty paragraph with "40 years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon..." They don't have it in scare quotes or use "supposedly", "allegedly" or "purportedly".

The rest of the article continues in the same vein. Mind you, moonbats, as I mentioned, go by the old PR adage that any publicity is good publicity, but I think that's a stretch. This article pretty much calls them whackjobs.

[Ernie M]

'MythBusters' moon landing (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2009/07/20/dcl.myth.busters.moon.landing.cnn) 9:26
video added to cnn.com on 20 July 2009

Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage (MythBusters (http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/mythbusters.html)) set some of the conspiracy stories straight in this interview:

why the U.S. flag looks appears to move
why it looked like there were multiple light sources that produced shadows
why walking motion had to be in weightlessness, not slowing motion, or using bungee cords


The MythBusters episode the CNN interviewer was referencing was the
"Moon Landing Hoax"
Season 6, Episode 11, originally aired 27 August 2008

One can only hope the CT watch and learn from the MythBusters...

Great work, by the way, Adam and Jamie.

[Thunder]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/17/moon.landing.hoax/index.html

And it is currently the most popular article on the CNN website:eye-poppi

And I have no doubt a feature on the is coming up on CNN itself.

conspiracy theorists are still viewers. more viewers means more ratings and more paid advertisements.

[Greg_in_CO]

It's this obsession that mainstream media has with showing "both sides" of science. Argh.

[ElMondoHummus]

Yeah, I agree with Hokulele and Fool: The article was mostly a refutation one, with hardly any sympathy for the denial view to be found. I wish Plait's blog were linked earlier, and the Clavius site linked period, but all in all I thought it made the lunacy of Apollo Hoaxers clear.

[technoextreme]

Only if you consider (and they likely do) being made out to be total maroons is a "boost".

My mother called me up about the guy who Buzz Aldrin punched in the face on Fox News. She told me he was a creep and just began yelling over everyone. I think they do a fairly good job on their own. :D

[patchbunny]

Fools! Everyone knows the moon landings were actually faked on the moon! (http://www.vgg.com/tr/tr_102201_moon.html) That's how they got all those lunar special effects to work.