Why in the hell did this whole "Bigfoot" hoax get so much media coverage?

[Hugabear]

Seriously - front page of CNN.com? A live news conference on CNN? Before this alleged Bigfoot has even been independently verified? I can understand a couple of local news organizations picking up on this, and the usual crypto websites. But CNN? Jiminy cricket...

I guess there really aren't any other pressing issues going on right now?

[flvegan]

1. Because the masses are easily distracted

and a percentage of them are simply stupid.

[Tindalos]

2. Nope, there's nothing going on right now.

Nothing at all. The economy is great. War? Who said there was a war? Umm. . . Look! Over there! It's Bigfoot!!

[madeline_con]

4. ...

:rofl:

[madeline_con]

3. Aren't there a couple of wars somewhere?

I guess people love that big ole ape. He's always gotten more copy than anything important. It sort of says something about the intelligence of the average joe. People who can't find Iraq on a map and don't know it's an election year will talk about this crap at work! :puke:

[The Straight Story]

5. War bores people because we are so used to them, big foot is sexy

:)

[SheilaT]

6. What bigfoot hoax?

I don't have a TV these days, so I miss all sorts of stuff.

And it's mostly for the better.

[liberalhistorian]

7. CNN has been deteriorating ever since

Ted Turner sold it and it's become what he feared most. It really jumped the shark three years ago, with that whole "runaway bride" bullshit. Remember that chick who went missing a few days before her wedding, Jennifer something? It turns out that she'd skipped town 'cause she didn't want to go through with the wedding but was too chickenshit to call it off in a more dignified manner. That Saturday, the day of the wedding, early in the morning, they finally discovered that she'd cut her hair and skipped town on a bus the Tuesday before. CNN had already spent an inordinate amount of time on this bullshit "news" during the week.

They then spent that ENTIRE fucking Saturday on it, chronicling her family's and fiance's reactions and communications with her and her return journey, even sending a reporter to accompany her on her plane ride home. The ENTIRE fucking day, nothing else. But that also happened to be the day that there were coordinated suicide bombings and attacks all throughout Iraq, the country was in flames, and nary one fucking word of coverage. No, it was all that "runaway bride" bullshit. Not to even mention the total lack of attention paid to hundreds of truly legitimate missing persons cases.

I couldn't believe it at the time, but have sadly come to realize that that is the way CNN now is, along with most of the other cable "news" channels. I remember the old CNN, the way it used to be, especially its incredible, amazing live coverage of Tienanman Square, including a producer's firm refusal to stop filming in the face of demands from Chinese officials. But that was then and this is now. And oh, how the mighty have fallen!

[madeline_con]

22. May I forward your post to CNN?

That was eloquent as hell.

[liberalhistorian]

24. Yes,

please feel free!!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. probably to mask Obama's counter attack on Corsi?

We are doing well at ripping Mr Corsi to shreds! Swiftboats sinking everywhere!

[L. Coyote]

9. Because they claim to have a dead body. Perhaps they do.

Even after the first body parts of gorillas were brought back to Europe, people refused to believe gorillas existed!

[cynatnite]

10. Because it was funny and worth a few extra viewers...

no one was going to take it seriously and sometimes it's nice to have something you can laugh at just to take a break from all the bad that goes on in the world.

Least that's how it felt to me today.

[Angleae]

11. CNN is just one step above the National Enquirer

[bemildred]

12. No missing white girls? nt

[shugah]

13. because it's funny?

Rachel even covered it on Countdown this evening. she had the guys on - they're pretty funny.

there are pressing issues - but having a laugh is important too. "body of bigfoot in a cooler in a safehouse somewhere..." not even a stifled giggle, PIB? c'mon...

[TreasonousBastard]

14. Because it's fun and people love it, just like....

Al Capone's Vault, Alien Autopsy, and celebrity reality shows.

Read a book, anewspaper or a magazine, ferchrissakes-- TV news is not news. Watch TV for entertainment like the rest of the world does.

[nevergiveup]

15. When I heard all the fuss

I thought maybe McCain had chosen Bigfoot for his running mate. It makes sense when you think about it.

[cynatnite]

16. Bigfoot said no due to McCain's desire to drill in Alaska n/t

[dweller]

17. and Grampy McSame

shot it.

end of story.

dp

[myrna minx]

19. Heh. It *does* make sense, as the McCain/Bigfoot ticket might satisfy the freeper

contingency. As long as it's the McCain/"Bigfoot" ticket and not one of those exotic, commie, illegals like the Yeti, Sasquatch or a Canuck like the Abominable Snowman. Hopefully he wasn't born in Panama or Hawaii, so we can forgo any "natural born" issues. I look forward to reading bigfoot's manifesto. Perhaps he has a better, more sensible environmental policy to bring to McCain's ticket. :D

[hunter]

18. That mean ol' Russian kicked our dog.

An' told us not to let 'm poop on his lawn again.

Don't he know our dogs can poop anywhere they want???

We'll kick his red ass, that's for sure. And we got Bigfoot.

[riverdeep]

20. I saw the Maddow interview with these guys.

She didn't come right out and say it, but she let you easily read between the lines that she thinks its bs. Those guys were so full of it. She came right out and asked them is one of the purposes of doing this to make as much money as possible (like some other guy at the conference said). One the guys said, oh yes.

These idiots didn't even have any scientific evidence ready to present, they said they had the body hidden and no one can see it, that they told lies earlier to throw off internet stalkers, and on and on. It's a nice distraction, but let's not fall for this again.

[valerief]

21. Aw, next week it'll be the image of Jesus in puddle. CNN is the new Comedy Central. nt

[Q3JR4]

23. A follow up to the Bigfoot thing...

"Bigfoot" fails DNA test.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080815/us_nm/bigfoot_dc

Apparently an opossum was involved.

Q3JR4.

[npk]

25. I am shocked

I would have never believed the DNA tests would have come back negative. :sarcasm:

[BlooInBloo]

26. Because our country is populated by idiots.

[RNdaSilva]

27. More interesting than McCain's media coverage?