William K. Wolfrum Chronicles

The Mainstream Media in the U.S. is broken. Completely and utterly broken. And it’s helping to create a nation of imbeciles, plain and simple. Because when a woman shows off pictures of a dead dog and declares that she’s found some type of supernatural beast, real journalists are supposed to shun her. Perhaps even mock her before slamming the phone down.

But not the Associated Press. And now MSNBC, Fox News and countless others are running the story about this lady and the dead dog, and treating it like some type of actual front-page news event and some type of issue that deserves debate and thought.

“Monster or dog? ‘Goatsucker’ tale debated”

CUERO, Texas - Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She’s been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it.

But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.

“It is one ugly creature,” Canion said, holding the head of the mammal, which has big ears, large fanged teeth and grayish-blue, mostly hairless skin.

What tipped Canion to the possibility that this was no ugly coyote, but perhaps the vampirelike beast, is that the chickens weren’t eaten or carried off — all the blood was drained from them, she said.

Chupacabra or not, the discovery has spawned a local and international craze. Canion has started selling T-shirts that read: “2007, The Summer of the Chupacabra, Cuero, Texas,” accompanied by a caricature of the creature. The $5 shirts have gone all over the world, including Japan, Australia and Brunei. Schaar also said he has one.

There’s pictures at the story if you want to see. It’s basically a story being used to showcase pictures of a dead dog or perhaps a coyote. In order to sell T-shirts. And AP is bringing the story to the masses, and the mainstream media is lapping it up like sad fools.

Seriously, it’s literally embarrassing seeing what the big news corporations thing the public should view as “news.” In fact, MSNBC has it listed under its “Science” section.

No wonder Weekly World News went out of business. All other forms of media lowered themselves to its standards.

–WKW

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