Comments on: Krantz Is Dead: Comment to Anthropologist Hawks

By: sasquatch

sasquatch — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:45:34 +0000

I’ve detected ommissions and slant from every “news”
outlet out there. It depends on which slant suits YOUR slant more that determines the outlet you gravitate to. But, it seems that every media outlet treats cryptozoology and -ist’s with a disdain and nervous offhandedness that belies what I see in a lot of people; cowardess. Very few folks are secure enough in their standing with their peers to risk being ridiculed or bunched in with folks who seem to hold a minority view on topics. So, they laugh, call you crazies, cranks (Hawks) or fanatics or whatever they can think of to stall for time and avoid actually adressing the topic(S).

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:29:00 +0000

So Fox News, Shepherd Smith and the giggling blonde bubble head. If this is where you get your news on any subject at all (and I’ll disregard Sports since that isn’t really news anyhow), then I suggest you take that last step to realize that they treat any subject that same way if it’s not in line with their narrowly defined focus group proven paradigm of their ideal viewer. I find Fox particularly egregious, but it’s pervasive. Even Ira Flatow on NPR’s science friday seems to think that interest and relevancy are measured by how stereotypical and pre-masticated the information can be made for the very lowest common denominator of an audience….dumbed down and dull.

I don’t know if it’s a result of the internet or if the internet is the result of it, but thank our good fortune to live at a time when the so called news has never shown so much potential nor done a worse job at using it to inform people.

So, thanks again, Loren for keeping the level of interest and discussion head and shoulders above the mob.

By: aletaaa

aletaaa — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:23:13 +0000

Shut up Moneymaker. You make us all look bad.

By: harleyb

harleyb — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:13:59 +0000

Way to go Mr. Coleman, Cryptozoology should not be taken lightly at all. Alot of people take advantage while real researchers are keeping it real.

By: Sylense

Sylense — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:45:25 +0000

Good point from sasquatch on the “un-friendly fire”.

It’s getting to be more and more pathetic the way folks can’t get along within the research field. MM is a creep because he charges people to join his expeditions? Would you like to quit your job and have willing people pay you to search for sasquatches? I would!! Good for him!

Are you happy going on your own or with friends at no charge? I am! Good for you too!

We’re all in this together. Some of us have more time and money to be in the field doing research. Lets not be jealous of the folks who do.

Without jealousy, there’s a better cohesiveness and we need to stick together. A MM bashing isn’t what this was intended to be.

Goog job on the article response Loren.

By: sasquatch

sasquatch — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:01:39 +0000

Well, in defense of Mr. Moneymaker; I saw/heard him interviewed on Fox News this morning and the poor guy could hardly get a word in edge-wise as he first needed to clear the air of several misconceptions, but they were thrown at him with considerable speed and rudeness, all the while this moronic blonde in the background did nothing but giggle her cutesy little_off. Then they said, well here we have a picture of you with a creature…But Matt had to interupt them again to say it wasn’t him….They threw up a shot of that paleo-sculpter with his Gigantopithecus in the backyard in L.A.- Moneymaker corrected them on this point. Well anyway, The show was typical of Media interviews with Cryptozoologists-uninformed, rude, presumptive, smug and downright ignorant and arrogant at the same time. Shepard Smith was equally as annoying when he smugly anounced that Bigfoot was dead when Ray Wallace passed away a couple years ago. One thing that’s almost as annoying is the un-”freindly fire” between Cryptozoologists. Personally I think evolution is a moronic concept, Not withstanding Mr. Hawkes’ “Creationist Cracks” comment (typical ad-hawke-ism coming from Mr. Hawkes) but Grover seemed like a nice old guy and I have his Big Footprints book and agree with a lot of what HE said.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:54:20 +0000

An update to this selection can be found here: "The AP and Dr. Hawks Respond.".

By: Kathy Strain

Kathy Strain — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:15:07 +0000

God said She was busy right now, but Loren had nothing to fear…

By: silvereagle

silvereagle — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:07:00 +0000

Loren, Now you’ve done it. You’ve crossed Kathy Strain. May God have mercy on your soul.

By: jodzilla

jodzilla — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:38:58 +0000

Sock it to ‘im! I love Sasquatch: The Evidence. It’s right next to my bed. (That’s probably too much information, and a little sad.) Oh well, I’m glad you gave this guy some attitude.