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From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates.nul> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:13:17 -0500 Archived: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:13:17 -0500 Subject: LA Times - Say What You Mean Source: Billy Cox's Blog | De Void http://tinyurl.com/34yy9v Monday, December 3, 2007, 9:39 am LA Times - Say What You Mean By Billy Cox Will wonders never cease? On Saturday, the Los Angeles Times, http://tinyurl.com/2olcl5 felt compelled to lower itself into commenting on recent developments in UFO-ville. Slow news day? Temporary insanity? A sick, sinking feeling that growing numbers of Americans might actually be engaged by this stuff? Maybe for that reason, the Times applied a slightly different MSM tack to an issue that's beginning to gain some long overdue traction. Well, yes, of course, it had to employ the old reliable "cult of the UFO" pejoration to describe people who'd like to know why the USA can't police its own skies. And they were obliged to take another formula swipe at the usual suspect ("with Kucinich as a central advocate, ridicule may be unavoidable"). And rather than puzzle over the evidence at hand, the Times cited "the clumsy, protesting-too-much denials of government agencies" as a major culprit in the credibility gridlock. But in invoking former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta's call for UFO glasnost, the Times described it as a "demand that is as reasonable as it is unlikely to happen, given how easily this topic can be rerouted into japery." Wait a minute. Freeze frame. "Reasonable"? Amid all the fancy footwork, did the LA Times just label Podesta's initiative as "reasonable"? Is that, like, an endorsement? Better late than never, but where the hell have you guys been for all these years? An MSM editorial writer who mentions Kecksburg, Val Johnson, Lonnie Zamora, and the Kaikoura lights in the same sentence has been pulling his (or her) punches for a long time. The only way "disclosure is unlikely to happen" is if the self-proclaimed defenders of the public interest keep sitting on their hands and waiting for somebody else to step up. Memo to the LA Times: Quit using Dennis Kucinich as a shield. Come out of the closet and do your job. ----- Please consider adding a link to Billy's Blog on your site or Blog. His is, seemingly, the only visible mainstream media journalist who consistently covers UFO-related matters in depth... deserves to be read by all sides of the fence. He is, after all and as his blog-banner says, "the mainstream media's lonely UFO web log". Thanks. Spread the Cox words. He'll be a guest on the next SDI PodCast and could probobly be on yours... ebk [and thanks to 'The Norm' for the lead] Listen to 'Strange Days... Indeed' - The PodCast See: http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/sdi/program/subscribers/
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