Call me crazy, but there’s just too much evidence of unidentified life forms… unidentified flying objects and anomalies to flat out say that aliens and portals and all that crazy “mumbo jumbo” aren’t real. Truthfully, there is so much that we can’t explain.

And if you want to really wonder, I highly recommend Payne Lindsey’s ‘High Strange’ podcast from Tenderfoot TV. Just a journalist asking good questions.

And isn’t that what journalists are supposed to do… ask good questions?

But what about Orson Welles’ “The War of the Worlds”? A 1938 Halloween episode on CBS radio which incited a panic by convincing the listeners that a Martian Invasion was taking place. (Oops!)

Smoke and mirrors, sensationalism… yellow journalism… have long been contributors of what we know to be news… playing a part in politics and world events since major publishers Willliam Randolph Hurst and Joseph Pulitzer owned the largest share of coverage.

I mean… come on… in the late 19th century it was sensetionalism – not facts – that served as a significant catalyst propelling the United States into conflict with Cuba.

So it brings up another question… what is the role of sensationalism today?

Are events and topics in news stories selected to excite the greatest number of readers and viewers? Is it encouraging biased or emotionally loaded impressions of events instead of neutrality… is news being manipulated? Personally, I think many of us agree that it is.

Aliens may be real… but who really knows. Let’s just keep – or start – asking honest questions.

Jen Bailey

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