The alien in the window is back

[bryan]

The infamous Alien in the window video will be on ABC News Primetime tonight.

This is the case that we have been fighting for over a year because of its use in a Denver political issue.

Unfortunately ABC news has not contacted anyone on the skeptical side of the issue, so it looks like they are just going to push the typical UFO nonsense even more.

You can see the details at: http://abcnews.go.com/primetime

We need to find some way to let ABC know that there are other sides to what they are presenting as "the truth".

You can see some of our details on the case at www.denveretcommission.org

[Ashles]

We need to find some way to let ABC know that there are other sides to what they are presenting as "the truth".


They already know that. They don't care.
The other sides (rationality, skepticism, science, evidence-based etc.) are so much more boring and less TV friendly.

[Fnord]

Rationalism makes for a boring program. What the sponsors want usually involves car chases, hysterical women, violent men, scandal, pistol-waving, gunshots, boobage, blood, explosions, panic in the streets ... et cetera.

So why should reporting the news be any different? "If it bleeds, it leads" goes the television journalist's credo.

[Stray Cat]

Rationalism makes for a boring program. What the sponsors want usually involves car chases, hysterical women, violent men, scandal, pistol-waving, gunshots, boobage, blood, explosions, panic in the streets ... et cetera.

Then why did the Pendragons never get their own TV show :D

[Fnord]

Then why did the Pendragons never get their own TV show :D

Lousy agent.

[Safe-Keeper]

Rationality in no way has to be boring.fjMh6e_wxbY
'nuff said.

[ExactlyNothing]

I'm actually quite surprised by the positive fanfare this special is receiving among those in the alien abduction believers community. Especially when considering the general contempt they had for the network after the disastrous Peter Jennings UFO special aired in '95.

[Starthinker]

Did anyone see this? I only saw the video the guy made, looks like a halloween mask. How did the show spin it? I wonder if people like this have pull with the networks or are just lucky because if that's all it takes to get on tv then it seems like everyone would be on tv.

[Brattus]

Well I can't speak for everyone of course, but I always put a vid cam in front of one of my kitchen windows and let it run.
I can't really think of one rational reason that someone wouldn't put a vid cam in front of their kitchen window.
We are not alone!

[bryan]

I watched the show, and they did a reasonably good job in having a skeptical viewpoint. They actually brought in physicists, psychologists, etc... and explained some of the natural causes of the abduction phenomena.

[Denver]

I watched it too, and also thought they were reasonably balanced. I mean, it wasn't all-believing like a History Channel special, but it was also not an ambush of the guy. In the end, I came across with the impression that Primetime brought up enough counterpoints to the claims and anecdotes of the abductees to plant sufficient doubt in the minds of the audience that there is a very good chance there were no aliens involved.

[Starthinker]

I watched it too, and also thought they were reasonably balanced. I mean, it wasn't all-believing like a History Channel special, but it was also not an ambush of the guy. In the end, I came across with the impression that Primetime brought up enough counterpoints to the claims and anecdotes of the abductees to plant sufficient doubt in the minds of the audience that there is a very good chance there were no aliens involved.

Well, that's good. Except that there is absolutely no chance that aliens were involved. None, nada, zilch.

[Denver]

Well, that's good. Except that there is absolutely no chance that aliens were involved. None, nada, zilch.

Maybe my wording was unclear, if you are reading this as me saying there was a chance of that. I was trying to say it planted sufficient doubt in the minds of the audience, so that they would come away with at best the thought that there is a very good chance there were no aliens involved.

Based on the evidence given, I don't believe there were aliens involved in these anecdotes either.

[Fnord]

Well I can't speak for everyone of course, but I always put a vid cam in front of one of my kitchen windows and let it run. I can't really think of one rational reason that someone wouldn't put a vid cam in front of their kitchen window.
We are not alone!

I tried to capture aliens outside my kitchen window that way, but all that ever showed up in the video was this big, shaggy, ape-like creature in the company of a pink horse-like creature with a single horn coming out of it's forehead.

I was so disappointed.

(The foregoing reply is a piece of fiction. The image was actually that of a neighbor letting his dog relieve itself on my lawn.)