UFOs AND THE MEDIA
The ‘Grey’ Lady’ Squeezes Out 646 Words on UFOs. I’m Adding a Few.
The New York Times finally gets around to writing about David Grusch and buries an otherwise perfunctory story on Page A18.
The New York Times on Wednesday finally staggered out of the starting gate. They had no choice. The UFO disclosure story that their own reporting unearthed in 2017 before vanishing into the hazy ether of Julian Barnes’s dutiful stenography finally escaped from Podcastland, The Debrief, News Nation and #UFOTwitter and roared into a magnificent, mahogany-lined chamber in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington D.C.
It was streamed by Congress, available on C-SPAN. Covered live by News Nation. Impossible to ignore, in other words.
Having already seen the story above the fold on the front page of my state’s largest newspaper, The Oregonian, I picked up the Times this morning with high hopes, only to find Helene Cooper’s 646-word piece way back on page A18, positioned next to an unsettling photograph of whatever the hell was going on with poor Mitch McConnell yesterday.
The story is a piece of perfunctory tedium, void of any potentially embarrassing context (former Times staffer Ralph Blumenthal…
