Guys and girls - I was thinking of enlisting your help for a little research/experiment.
What I want to do is simple. Anyone interested in joining me in contacting your local TV station's editorial staff of presenter (anchor in the US).
I am going to contact my local TV station and ask them how they would run a local story that resembles the Stephenville UFO sighting. It could be any recent good sighting.
Obviously this is just a simple question of how they would report a local UFO sighting that has gone national/international. Multiple witnesses, radar tracks, apparent Air Force jets scrambled. That sort of thing.
I am interested to see if they would report it straight or would they use the X-Files theme in the background or make little green men jokes, that sort of thing.
As a local print journalist, I thought Angela Joiner was terrific in reporting seriously the Stephenville UFO event.
Would our local media happily tell us they would report it straight or would they say that but actually make light of it? Do they have any editorial recommendations already governing such 'out-there' stories?
I don't even know if local TV stations would bother replying to such a request but I would like to find out. Can do no harm.
There is some merit in my finding out about my local situation on it's own but I think it would be far more interesting to get a feel of how this might play out around the world, wherever forum members happen to live?
Anyone willing to send a short email to their local newsroom about this, please reply and let me know you are interested. It need only take 5 mins of your lives!
If no-one replies I shall keep any such future ideas to myself!
Gordon
What I want to do is simple. Anyone interested in joining me in contacting your local TV station's editorial staff of presenter (anchor in the US).
I am going to contact my local TV station and ask them how they would run a local story that resembles the Stephenville UFO sighting. It could be any recent good sighting.
Obviously this is just a simple question of how they would report a local UFO sighting that has gone national/international. Multiple witnesses, radar tracks, apparent Air Force jets scrambled. That sort of thing.
I am interested to see if they would report it straight or would they use the X-Files theme in the background or make little green men jokes, that sort of thing.
As a local print journalist, I thought Angela Joiner was terrific in reporting seriously the Stephenville UFO event.
Would our local media happily tell us they would report it straight or would they say that but actually make light of it? Do they have any editorial recommendations already governing such 'out-there' stories?
I don't even know if local TV stations would bother replying to such a request but I would like to find out. Can do no harm.
There is some merit in my finding out about my local situation on it's own but I think it would be far more interesting to get a feel of how this might play out around the world, wherever forum members happen to live?
Anyone willing to send a short email to their local newsroom about this, please reply and let me know you are interested. It need only take 5 mins of your lives!
If no-one replies I shall keep any such future ideas to myself!
Gordon
