Chicago Tribune Editorial

For some reason, the Chicago Tribune decided to print an editorial on releasing government UFO information. I was hoping for something intelligent, given that the Trib had done well covering the O'Hare UFO story. No wonder newspaper circulation is down!

Originally posted by niv
For some reason, the Chicago Tribune decided to print an editorial on releasing government UFO information. I was hoping for something intelligent, given that the Trib had done well covering the O'Hare UFO story. No wonder newspaper circulation is down!

Just wow. Why even bother printing the article in the first place? That is about as stupid as printing an article asking the govt. to give us more taxes geesh.

So they don't want disclosure because it might kill the hopes and dreams that there aren't any UFO's and aliens? Article seems like it was written as a goofing around project and accidentally made it to print.

The www.faxonwashington.org... site states,

"Between November 5, 2008 and January 20, 2009 - seventy-seven days - send a letter, fax and/or email to the Washington transition headquarters of President Elect Barack Obama calling for the next administration to end the Truth Embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence and release as much relevant information to the American people as possible within reasonable constraints of national security. You won't be alone. The goal is one million."

Anyone know the real numbers so far?

With all the crap going on in Chicago and Illinois as a whole, this would be called 'filler' so they don't have to post something that might be detrimental to there usual slant on politcs. The 'Trib ' has'ignored much of what goes on in that state and the Daley administration. Probably just to use up space they publish this fluff to show they' CARE ' and to foster some enthusiasm with the paper!

Zindo

At first, and taking into consideration that the newspaper took the O’Hare sighting seriously, reported it somewhat decently and had the most traffic on their website ever, I thought this editorial was sarcastic, as some other reader on the comments points out:

I think that the author here is trying some form of sarcasm...
That's the only plausible reason for an article like this.

Unfortunately, it does not seem to be the case. It really is a terrible article, making a mockery of the subject, completely false generalizations, and something being passed of as reasoning to keep the information classified that can only be qualified as retarded:

Let’s not disclose the information because there might not be aliens and doing so will damage our economy and our scientific advancements would stall, because scientists got into science thanks to Star Trek and Close Encounters, and faced with the sad reality that there aren’t any aliens, no one would want to be a scientist. For the sake of hope, let’s not disclose!

This is the ‘reasoning’ and premise of the article...

If one were to be more conspiratorial, one could say it sounds like propaganda to keep the information secret, because like all previous Government positions, ‘explanations’ and policies on the UFO phenomena, this article and the reasoning behind it is equally ridiculous.

But the sad reality is that this was written by a very ignorant person who knows and has researched nothing about the subject. Coming from someone who calls himself a ‘journalist’, published on a ‘newspaper’, it is an incredibly unprofessional piece of work regardless of the subject.

With this lack of journalistic quality, no wonder The Tribune is on the brink of bankruptcy. And having read this article, if The Tribune would actually cease to exist, I would have to say: and nothing of value would be lost.

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Although the Tribune is trying to be cute, they may have a point about the government and military not having anything on flying saucers or aliens. Those theories are all conjecture at best, and they could all be wrong. How would they be able to say they don't have anything and be believed?

I couldn't figure out why they wrote this editorial in the first place. If they are trying to be funny/sarcastic, they failed. If they are serious, it is a complete pile of drivel. Why would they spoil their previous success (in terms of increasing hits to their website) of the O'Hare UFO with this incoherent stuff?