Skepticism Grows Over Claims That MH370 Lies In the Bay of Bengal

Sockatume (732728) writes "The latest episode of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Mediawatch program addresses GeoResonance's claims to have found the lost Malasia Airlines MH370 in the Bay of Bengal. They attribute the company's sudden prominence to increasing desperation amongst the press. Meanwhile, the Metabunk web site has been digging into the people and technology behind GeoResonance and its international siblings, finding noted pseudoscientist Vitaly Gokh and a dubious variation on Kirlian photography."

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Re:Where's journalism?

[Anonymous Coward]

I used CNN as an example because of the plane thing.

I actually think NYT is still okay, but maybe only relatively speaking, given the alternatives. You can't compare it to CNN or FOX or MSNBC. It has a variety of articles with SOME depth. Not perfect, but not at the level of depravity of the others

NYTimes talks to us like we're in maybe 8th grade. CNN talks to us like we're in preschool. That's not to say NYTimes is without HUGE problems, the worst that comes to mind being its negligence in the ramp up to Iraq war- Judy Miller, who really is a bloody stain on the history of journalism. But relatively speaking, the NYTimes is still the best of what's out there in the larger mass media organizations.