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NASAWATCH: Thank you for your very frank and truthful comments about Fox TV's disgusting moon hoax show. I wrote to our local affiliate (KJTV-34, Lubbock TX) after the first broadcast of Conspiracy Theory etc.. They largely agreed with my views on the show and offered to do a brief news segment, featuring local hoax debunkers, after the rerun.

Harvey Madison of the Center for Critical Thinking and I were the chosen debunkers. The segment ran last night during KJTV's local news broadcast. This was immediately after the hoax-hoax re-run, so we had an excellent lead-in. The segment was only 2 minutes long. This script has been edited to match the actual broadcast. "Jeff" is KJTV news director and anchor Jeff Klotzman.

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ANOTHER NOTE FROM SPACE....
WE DON'T MAKE A HABIT OF BASHING OUR OWN PROGRAMMING, BUT IF YOU WATCHED THE MOON HOAX SHOW BEFORE TONIGHT'S NEWS, YOU'LL SEE WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT....
THE SHOWED POSED THE QUESTION "DID WE REALLY LAND ON THE MOON?"... OR IS IT ALL JUST A NASA-SPONSORED HOAX...
FOX34'S HAL NELSON TALKED TO TWO DE-BUNKERS WHO SAY THE IDEA OF A MOON HOAX...IS A FOUL BALL...

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JIMMY REYNOLDS SAYS CONSPIRACY THEORIES ARE AN INDUSTRY UNTO THEMSELVES...

IC: 5:38 "Especially with a theory as widespread as the moon hoax, there are 10-12 professional proponents of this and they tend to quote from each other, use each other as sources, that's typical among conspiracy theories....

REYNOLDS REFUTES THE HOAX THEORY POINT BY POINT... FOR INSTANCE, THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS CHARGE THE VAN ALLEN BELTS, BELTS OF RADIATION OUTSIDE THE ATMOSPHERE, ARE LETHAL, AND NO ASTRONAUT COULD TRAVEL SAFELY THROUGH THEM...
REYNOLDS SAYS THE RADIATION LEVELS HAVE BEEN CALCULATED AND ACCOUNTED FOR BY SEVERAL AGENCIES, INCLUDING NASA, AND THEY AREN'T A LETHAL PROBLEM...

IC; 3:55 Y'know the communication satellites that carried the Fox program in the first place wouldn't have worked if they had the wrong figures for the radiation in the Van Allen belts...

ic: (Harvey Madison) 34:25 "There are two tragedies here, one that we're not educating people how to think critically...

HARVEY MADISON ALSO SAYS THE HOAX IDEA NEEDS TO BE CHALLENGED BY EVERYONE THAT WATCHES IT...
FOR INSTANCE, HOAX ADVOCATES COMPLAIN THAT THE SHADOWS OF THE ASTRONAUTS ARE NOT PARALLEL, INDICATING MULTIPLE LIGHT SOURCES....BUT THIS LIGHTING TECHNIQUE SHOWS TWO CANDLES, WITH ONE LIGHT SOURCE, AND THE SHADOWS ARE *NOT* PARALLEL..
MADISON SAYS THE FOX NETWORK ISN'T DOING ANYONE ANY FAVORS BY BLURRING THE LINE BETWEEN ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS...

IC: (Harvey) 35:02 "The second tragedy here is that a national network would take advantage of the gullibility fo Americans and exploit it...

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WE WANT TO CLARIFY THE MOON HOAX PROGRAM WAS RUN BY FOX ENTERTAINMENT, NOT THE FOX NETWORK NEWS DIVISION.###
SO IS IT A SCANDAL THAT THERE ARE NO STARS IN THIS PHOTO?? TAKE YOUR OWN PICTURE OF THE SKY AT NIGHT AND FIND OUT...OR DO YOUR OWN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH...JUST DON'T TAKE THE ENTERTAINMENT DIVISION OF FOX NETWORK T-V'S WORD FOR IT...WITH PHOTOJOURNALIST DOUG WILKINSON, I'M HAL NELSON FOR FOX34 NEWS AT NINE>

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WE WANT TO CLARIFY THE MOON HOAX PROGRAM WAS RUN BY FOX ENTERTAINMENT, NOT THE FOX NETWORK NEWS DIVISION.###


It wasn't much, but we at least had a chance to hit back. KJTV, to their very great credit, went out of their way to distance themselves from the program. As far as I know, they were the only Fox affiliate to directly repudiate the hoax program. I am told that KJTV owner Brad Moran personally approved the segment and promised to back the news department 100% if the network had any complaints.

Best Regards,

Jimmy Reynolds

"Abducting UFOs and conspiring against conspiracy theorists since 1980"


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