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so do you in the course of your

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instruction to your students do you

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teach them how to write stuff about the

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paranormal at all actually I don't

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really bring it up unless they do and

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they do bring it up quite a bit but

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every once in a while I will offer a

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class that I call paranormal journalism

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and that class is designed well because

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I hate what the media does if there's a

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story on Bigfoot they always quote Harry

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and the Hendersons if there's a story

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about a ghost sighting they always quote

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Ghostbusters and if it's a TV news story

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on a UFO sighting they play the x-files

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theme which completely discredit

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everything that any witness has to say

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so I teach the students about you know

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different different aspects of the

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paranormal and how to report on it with

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a straight face and the kids really take

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to it so it's low-hanging fruit they're

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reaching for there but we know what they

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do how do you think the media should

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approach the power in Rome well it looks

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like the New York Times is doing it

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because we have this article from Leslie

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Kane that are sensibly treated and

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believe it or not that it doesn't matter

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what your political viewpoints are

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Tucker Carlson from Fox News is very

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very seriously interested he's had Nick

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Pope on there more than once

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Leslie Kane and he doesn't get into

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these rather acid comments he's straight

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and serious and you don't do that if

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you're not seriously interested in the

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subject I think if you took him

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privately he'd say yeah despite all the

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political implications of the things he

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does he's seriously interested so there

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are exceptions in the media now but what

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should the media in general be doing to

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cover this stuff more accurately well

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and

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I agree with I mean journalists who are

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truly interested will cover it straight

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as they should but what what journalists

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should do is treat all of this seriously

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because there are there's a good section

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of their audience I mean there are polls

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that come out all the time that show you

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know seventy five percent of Americans

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believe that you know there is there is

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intelligent extraterrestrial life out

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there somewhere and there's like a good

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thirty eight percent that believe in

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Bigfoot and you know a bigger percentage

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than that that believe ghosts exist and

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you know a fairly decent percentage you

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said that they've experienced something

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like that so there is an interest and

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not just an interest in the in the

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public there's a need for serious

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journalism on on these topics I'm not

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necessarily wanting to know what's going

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you know going on at at area 51 buttered

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and and and s4 but you know what it'd be

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because I don't think we're ever gonna

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find out but you know what about

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research into into Bigfoot why not take

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people like dr. Jeff Meldrum seriously

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when he's looking into Bigfoot this guy

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is a serious academic and they they

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ignored it because they're afraid of

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ridicule ridicule and you know they

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should be braver than that and yes the

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New York Times has been been handling

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things I was rather shocked a year ago

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last December December 2017 when they

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when they came out with with their UFO

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stories I was I was pretty proud of them