quote:Originally posted by Nighthawk: Maybe it's me, but I fail to see how an event such as this, regardless of whether it was real or a hoax, would serve to "better market themselves".
They really wanted their "psychic detectives" reality tv show and wanted to get the publicity necessary to spark a base of interest in it. This could have worked, easily, had it not been such an apparently flimsy lie.
Plus, they're crazy. Rationally reasoning what would have better marketed themselves may have been completely irrelevant to their thought process.
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quote:By DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer Dan Elliott, Associated Press Writer – 27 mins ago...Documents show that a media outlet has agreed to pay money to the Heenes with regards to the balloon incident, Alderden said. He didn't name the media outlet, but said it was a show that blurs "the line between entertainment and news." It wasn't clear whether the deal was signed before or after the alleged hoax, or whether that media outlet was a possible conspirator.
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I think it's pretty funny that commentators on CNN were criticizing the family for appearing in interviews on... CNN. It's pretty hypocritical to criticize something that you helped create, CNN people.
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quote:Originally posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan: I think it's pretty funny that commentators on CNN were criticizing the family for appearing in interviews on... CNN. It's pretty hypocritical to criticize something that you helped create, CNN people.
I don't follow. CNN invited the family over to discuss the incident in good faith that the news of the ordeal would be broadcast to the world. Upon finding out that the incident was a hoax the news analyst are certainly justified in haranguing the family for attempting to use CNN to spread lies.
It was in part thanks to CNN that the truth is becoming revealed as it appears the sheriffs dept indicated that as part of their investigation they did not hint about false motives, and that subsequent testing and TV appearances have confirmed their suspicions.
As an analogy if bars owners become proactively engaged in discouraging drunk driving, I would not say that that was hypocritical.
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quote:DENVER, CO – Richard Heene has admitted the balloon fiasco was a hoax; his child is really an alien they were trying to send home.
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Richard Heene has since come forward saying this was an attempt to get his alien child back home that went spiraling out of control. Richard and his wife say that young Falcon fell to earth a little over a year ago. They found him in a small crater in their back yard in his natural alien form, which resembles a large mollusk. Richard was halfway to the taxidermist when the creature finally woke up and spoke.
Falcon’s real parents are political exiles barred from entering Earth’s atmosphere. Since losing their child they have been in geosynchronous orbit over Colorado and in good contact with the Heene parents. Falcon has helped Richard with his career in storm chasing, since Richard only has a high school diploma and never really understood the science behind what he was doing.
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quote:Originally posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan: I think it's pretty funny that commentators on CNN were criticizing the family for appearing in interviews on... CNN. It's pretty hypocritical to criticize something that you helped create, CNN people.
I don't follow. CNN invited the family over to discuss the incident in good faith that the news of the ordeal would be broadcast to the world. Upon finding out that the incident was a hoax the news analyst are certainly justified in haranguing the family for attempting to use CNN to spread lies.
That's not what they were doing, though. They were saying they thought it was wrong for anyone in that situation to appear on national television after the event.
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Yeah, I heard the guy criticizing the family for doing interviews in that situation. I think he was ad libbing, mad about the hoaxiness, and probably didn't think too hard about what he was saying.
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quote:And yet, while one infamous set of parents could face criminal charges for pretending their son was in a balloon, other parents think nothing of keeping their kids in a bubble.
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