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Yet Another “Haunting” News Story
It’s to be expected, I suppose, given that Halloween is almost here. But the news media continue to waste their time — and that of their readers/listeners/viewers — on stories about “hauntings” and the...
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Ghosts Keep Appearing In The News
The “hauntings as news” phenomenon is one I’ve blogged about many times, as a sterling example of lazy journalism at its most obvious. A nearby newspaper, the Torrington Register Citizen (part of the...
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Ghost Detector Proves Ghosts Exist, Supposedly
A man right here in Connecticut claims he’s invented a ghost detector. And at least one newspaper has published an article about him which conveys his claim and leaves it unchallenged. This is all part...
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Hartford Courant Declares Connecticut Building “Haunted”
It’s been a while since I last blogged about the phenomenon of “hauntings as news.” Of course, that’s not because media outlets have stopped reporting on “hauntings” and other “paranormal” events as...
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No, There’s No Ghost in “The Shining” Hotel
It’s been quite awhile since I blogged about the inane journalistic phenomenon of “hauntings as news.” That’s when some otherwise-reputable journalist pens a story telling the world that some place is...
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And the “Hauntings As News” Trope Carries On
I’ve blogged many times about the “hauntings as news” trope. It’s the height of journalistic laziness, and thoroughly unjustified since there are no such there are no haunted buildings and there aren’t...
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