From: DONZON  [Donald Waldrop]
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:30:04 EST
To: "UFO UpDates - Toronto" , Skywatch_ok@msn.com
Subject: Protest UPN irresponsible UFO programming
FOR POSTING
Dear list:
Here is my letter to UPN, protesting "Incident At Lake County." I
hope you all will take the time to write your feelings to your
local UPN affiliate. You can get many of the email addresses by
going to www.infoseek.com and typing in UPN. (The Los Angeles
affiliate is UPN Channel 13, reachable at: guestbook@upn13.com)
Let's make them aware we care.
Donald Waldrop
Director,  MUFON LA
Mutual UFO Network,
Los Angeles.
(Donzon@aol.com)
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Dear UPN Channel 13, Los Angeles --
I recently witnessed on your channel a very destructive bit of
misinformation masquerading as a documentary.
The fake docu-drama, "Incident In Lake County", promoted and
aired with the questions asking "Is it real?", was the worst
kind of misleading and fear-mongering programming. It was
clearly designed to cause fear of alien abduction in the average
person.
As I am sure you know, there are a large number of people who
have had actual sightings of UFOs. What you may not know, but
easily could have with a little research, is that a significant
portion of the public believes they have actually had contact with
alien entities. This section of our population includes many well-
educated and productive people. Many are traumatized by this belief
and many are looking to the press and television to help them
separate fact from fiction.
By televising programs like this, you are doing your watchers an
extreme disservice by blurring the distinctions of reality, causing
those who feel they are experiencing these events even more trauma
while fueling those more skeptical members of the public to be even
more closed to the possibility of life outside of our tiny world.
I personally feel programming like this is yellow journalism at its
worst. I now know that your integrity is at question and will avoid
watching any further UFO or ET subject programming on UPN 13.
I urge you to stay away from the Kiviat production company and
its questionable goals in producing programming like this.
Yours truly
Donald Waldrop
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