American Corporate Media: Our Greatest Shame
Sure, there are starving children, wars are breaking out, the planet is dying.
But in America today...
A pair of Georgia men faced more than a half-hour of skeptical questions from reporters Friday as they defended their claim that they stumbled upon the body of Bigfoot while hiking in a remote North Georgia forest.
CNN
The hikers - Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer - found the body, they said, on a hiking trip about two weeks ago in northern Georgia. Unfortunately, they said, it was not possible to show the actual body. It's in an icebox at an undisclosed location, awaiting a necropsy by a prestigious molecular biologist to be named later.
San Francisco Chronicle
"What I've seen so far is not compelling in the least, and I think the pictures cast grave doubts on their claim," Jeffrey Meldrum, a Bigfoot researcher and Idaho State University professor, told the Scientific American. "It just looks like a costume with some fake guts thrown on top for effect."
Meldrum said the DNA test likely won't prove anything and, at best, might yield a gene sequence that doesn't match any other known primates.
Whitton, an officer on medical leave from the Clayton County Police Department, and Dyer, a former corrections officer, announced the discovery in early July.
AP
A second round of DNA testing on the remains of a 7-foot-7, 500 pound man-ape they allege to have stumbled upon while hiking in North Georgia is still being completed, they said.
Of three samples in a preliminary DNA test, one came back inconclusive, one contained traces of human DNA and one had traces of opossum DNA — probably from something the creature ate, they said.
Cox News
With this excellent coverage, no wonder the American people ignored the world's problems, and instead ingested huge amounts of "infotainment" today.
#1 with a bullet.
We Americans get stupider every moment the corporate media is turned on.
UPDATE!
If America is hungry for infotainment about large mammals, may I suggest...