Why is mainstream media discussing extra-terrestial life?

[Deja Q]

ABC has a program on right now. About CETI.

Last week the sci-fi channel ran its usual amount of pablum, but why the interest of the mainstream media?

[AZCat]

1. The Michael Jackson trial isn't moving along fast enough?

:shrug:

God Forbid they do a bit of actual reporting...

[Deja Q]

5. Amazing, in'nit? The first alien that is human.

I'm the second of course, I've always said that "I feel like an alien in amongst my own people..."

[AZCat]

9. Please tell me you don't sleep in that oxygen coffin thingy...

It would be difficult to shoehorn a computer in there with you, and I wouldn't want to deprive our token alien of DU access.

[ikojo]

2. February is a sweeps month and nothing gets

ratings more than little green men....

[EFerrari]

3. Looking for new oil fields? Or, marks? n/t

[LostInAnomie]

4. They're prepping us for the invasion.

The end is near.

[Deja Q]

6. Well, that method is far more entertaining than

*co killing us all in his little glorious scheme to force democracy american corporate intests globally...

[Cannikin]

7. Scare fundies into supporting space borne defense?

put your tin foil on!

[Orsino]

8. Same reason * wants to go to Mars:

They've broken the Earth, and empires must expand or die.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Because the administration is in hot shit again

Come on, you should by now, that whenever the MSM suddenly switches gears, it's because they've been told to switch it.

The Gannon thing was getting too much coverage, and too many other things were happening.

"Quick, get the people's mind off the illegal things we're doing, and get them worrying about something that isn't actually a concern, like gay marriage, or extra-terrestrials, or Michael Jackson, or something!"