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Archae

(46,335 posts)
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 12:09 PM Jul 2013

ABC news goes full woo, again.

Couple years ago, ABC ran a story about a "faith healer" in Brazil, and were very one-sided, that is, talking up the "miracles" this fake in Brazil claimed to do.

Now they run this story about a woman who has "visions."

And once again the story is totally one-sided.


Pam Ragland was watching a TV report about the search for an 11-year-old California boy missing in a rural town miles away when she felt something wasn't right.

Ragland said she began crying and then a haunting vision popped into her head: A young boy lying on his side with his eyes closed.

The boy, Terry Dewayne Smith Jr., wasn't sleeping — and by the time Ragland's visions stopped, she had led detectives to his decomposing body behind his house in the Riverside County community of Menifee.

The remains had been partially buried in a shallow grave under a tree more than 60 miles from Ragland's Orange County home.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/dad-slain-calif-boy-wanted-live-19646036#.UeF5aH4o600

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ABC news goes full woo, again. (Original Post) Archae Jul 2013 OP
ABC News has been a joke since the death of Jennings Cooley Hurd Jul 2013 #1
Woo woo has become quite popular lately Hugabear Jul 2013 #2
Not to forget all that religious programming. PufPuf23 Jul 2013 #3

Hugabear

(10,340 posts)
2. Woo woo has become quite popular lately
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 12:13 PM
Jul 2013

You almost can't turn the channel without coming across some show about ghost hunting, monsters, vampires, aliens, Bigfoot, Nostradamus, etc.

PufPuf23

(8,790 posts)
3. Not to forget all that religious programming.
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 12:39 PM
Jul 2013

Woo has always been popular and IMO is part of the human condition.

Woo in popular culture in much more benign than the woo than makes war.

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