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August 14, 2005
CBS in Los Angeles Tells Ghost Stories as News
Last night during the 6:00 local news, CBS2 here in Southern California aired a segment about "paranormal investigators" going through the old KNX radio studio in Columbia Square looking for ghosts from days gone by. And guess what, they found some. One was supposedly William Paley the founder of CBS, the other was Bob Crane. They also felt the presents of an unidentified women and man.
You can watch a somewhat different version than the one I saw by going the to KCBS2's website and then taking the link with the innocuous title, "KNX 1070 moving from historic Columbia Square after 67 years, Lisa Sigell reports." Both the online version and what I heard raised virtually no questions that these clairvoyants, armed with digital thermometers and infrared cameras, really did find the ghosts of the early days in Los Angeles radio. It all looked and sounded very scientific. Digital thermometer in hand, one clairvoyant asks another, "Are you channeling now? The second replies, "We are getting oscillations."
Well, I was getting oscillations just watching it. This segment, which lasted two to three minutes, was one of the longest in that half-hour local news program. They presented it with same style and texture of all the other segments. The segment was not presented as a joke or as some popular culture anomaly. It was presented as news! In fact, in the version I saw, Lisa Sigell made a reference to the impressive credentials of the "investigators."
No one should be the least surprised that uninformed people believe in ghosts and other nonsense when it is aired as news on otherwise reputable outlets. Likewise, no one should be surprised that there is little knowledge of how science actually works. CBS2 news owes its listeners an apology and an explanation that these so-called investigators are frauds
Posted by Duane Smith at August 14, 2005 11:33 AM | Read more on Current Events |
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