Once again a top-tier media entity has fallen victim to the, "we are a national publication, so our writers and editors are smarter than everyone else" syndrome and produced a sublime piece of excrement for journalism. This miasma of sophistry, non-sequiters and just plain ignorance is an embarrassment. Your writers and editors have made fools of themselves and their magazine.
I particularly admire the closing example. It mimics a low moment in the "Peter Jennings Reports UFOs: Seeing is Believing" documentary when SETI Director Dr. Jill - I once mistook the moon for a UFO, so forget this UFO nonsense and build me another radio telescope - Tarter made a fool of herself by dismissing 60 years of research by thousands of people and the testimony of hundreds of emerging government witnesses because she and her husband had a senior moment while driving one night.
Newsweek is capable of excellent journalism. In this case it has bought into the government propaganda campaign behind the UFO/ET truth embargo. Having followed Newsweek's coverage of the Iraq war, I know for a fact this magazine is better than this piece of tripe. Wake up.
Stephen Bassett
Executive Director
Paradigm Research Group
PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org
www.paradigmresearchgroup.org









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