"Who are we to say it's not real", said the FOX NEWS reporter. I guess reporting news means just repeating whatever the shills want you to.
This is EXACTLY right. This whole incident is really a demonstration of just how bad it's gotten.
Our corporate owned media establishments have no interest in journalism; merely ratings. Our local Fox branch ran the "Bigfoot" story, after first talking it up throughout the day, then showing that single, stupid-looking photo and saying, "Well, what do YOU think it is? Is Bigfoot real?"
I was like, "Hey A-hole...I don't know. I work for living and I don't have entire teams of potential investigative reporters, and the funding of a giant corporate entity, at my fingertips. How 'bout YOU send someone out to examine the thing, then you REPORT what you FIND!?"
Not to pull this into PnR', but damn...this penchant for "We Pontificate, You decide!" has destroyed our fourth estate, and it doesn't serve the public. It's pablum...and they do it for just about everything.