Paranormal Podcast Host Jim Harold on the Mainstream Media’s Non-Coverage of the Paranormal
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Jim Harold explains why mainstream media outlets stick to conventional “giggle factor” reports of the paranormal.
California (PRUnderground) August 31st, 2011
Join Skeptiko host Alex Tsakiris for an interview with author, and host of the Paranormal Podcast, Jim Harold. During the interview Harold explains how the mainstream media reports on the paranormal:
Alex Tsakiris: You’re covering an area that has a great deal of interest to the general public, but one that still doesn’t get a lot of serious mainstream media coverage. Are you surprised more media outlets haven’t jumped into it just for the numbers?
Jim Harold: I wish I knew the answer to that because that’s my problem with the mainstream media when it comes to something like the paranormal. I can’t tell you why it is. I don’t know that it’s a conspiracy. Maybe it is that people who are in the mainstream media understand this area has a “giggle factor.” They’re almost afraid to treat it seriously because they’ve been trained otherwise.
And I think in some cases it may not be a conspiracy. They just think — this is the way we cover the paranormal. We laugh at it; we giggle at it; we play The X-Files music; we put it as the kicker to end the broadcast and we’re done. So I think it’s more of a convention than anything else.
Alex Tsakiris: I’m not going to jump too quickly on the conspiracy idea, but I do think we have to go there a little bit. We have to go back and ask — who created the template in the first place?
Jim Harold: True.
The Skeptiko interview with Dr. Jim Harold (audio and transcript) is available at:
https://www.skeptiko.com/146-paranormal-podcast-host-jim-harold
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