Bigfoot/ Sasquatch Update August 15th, 2008

The two men claiming to have a Bigfoot come forward at a press conference today. Full Story »

Posted by Carl Benjamin
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Subjects: Sci/Tech, Extra
Topics: Science, Southeast
Member Tags: Sasquatch, anthropologists, hoax
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Posted by: Posted by Carl Benjamin - Aug 15, 2008 - 10:17 PM PDT
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Michael Bugeja
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by Michael Bugeja - Oct. 1, 2008

First of all, I want to praise this blogger because he is trying to be fair, and that is a quality we need more of online. However, this type of submission to the NewsTrust.net site puts itself at immediate risk of low rating, not because the blogger deserves such, but because this is not journalism; it is an online diary about a topic in the news. As such, we read an account of what Carl Benjamin viewed and feels about Bigfoot coverage. In his link for trackback--I wish traditional journalists would do more of this online--we get this observation rather than the news: "Yesterday afternoon, I was listening to Fox News on my radio. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. They were actually talking about Bigfoot." The more ... More »

The thawed body was revealed in a storage freezer. From the pictures it is hard to tall (sic) if the creature is for real or just a man in a costume. More »

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Carl Benjamin
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by Carl Benjamin - Oct. 1, 2008

I wrote this article based on three other news articles.

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