Interesting CNN article today

[ColinWeaver]

The other problem is that people seldom see/read corrections to news stories so many blindly believe what they read the first time and move along through life with misinformation.

This whole python ordeal and the lies told by television and news outlets has taken my cynicism to a whole new level. Whenever I watch a supposedly educational show on some topic with which I'm not familiar (NatGeo or Discovery Channel, etc.) I find myself wondering how much they are crap they are selling me on those topics, too.

[RichsBallPythons]

The other problem is that people seldom see/read corrections to news stories so many blindly believe what they read the first time and move along through life with misinformation.

This whole python ordeal and the lies told by television and news outlets has taken my cynicism to a whole new level. Whenever I watch a supposedly educational show on some topic with which I'm not familiar (NatGeo or Discovery Channel, etc.) I find myself wondering how much they are crap they are selling me on those topics, too.

Thats one reason i dont watch those channels and have them blocked from showing up on my channel list. I dont want to be fed something thats crap about a species i know nothing about, THINKING its adequate information. Which happens all the time when they have snake episodes and ppl think their being fed the truth.

[snakelady]

It SOUNDS like he did a good job representing the facts as well as anyone knows them, but the news media decided to misquote him. Not a surprise.

Happens all the time! It's such a shame that what gets printed is regarded as gospel.

[RichsBallPythons]

Thought this would interest some ppl.
Frozen Boa

[ColinWeaver]

The URI on this photo suggest the picture was taken in Oregon. Time? Date? Location? Related to Florida coldness?

[RichsBallPythons]

The URI on this photo suggest the picture was taken in Oregon. Time? Date? Location? Related to Florida coldness?

Not sure where it came from just pointing out that snakes cant survive cold weather like Florida has right now

This is attached to the immage properties if u save it to the desktop.

"Ron Newman holds the dead and very frozen snake found Monday along the Great Miami River by the AK Steel pump house. Staff photo by John Agliata"

[Vypyrz]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/weather/0...iref=allsearch


None of us has any evidence to really support the suggestion that the HSUS or some other organization is staging the release of animals to continue gaining momentum for the bill but I don't think it's above them to stoop to such tactics to achieve their goals. I doubt we'll ever know for sure.

Cheers,

Well, they did catch that one wildlife expert who staged the capture of his own snake, so as far as I'm concerned, the precedence has been set...

Whenever I watch a supposedly educational show on some topic with which I'm not familiar (NatGeo or Discovery Channel, etc.) I find myself wondering how much crap they are selling me on those topics, too.

I am starting to think that the news medias are becoming nothing more than another version of those cheesy reality tv shows, where they will do or say whatever they need to get ratings...

[Eventide]

Something I found yesterday: a VPI publication called, "Will they come in out of the cold? Observations of large constrictors in cool and cold conditions." I tried linking the PDF, but the link won't work. Instead, here's a link to VPI's publications (it's about two-thirds of the way down the page).

Check out their other publications as well. Lots of good arguing points.