{"id":1804,"date":"2011-06-14T18:47:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T22:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2011-06-14T12:49:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:49:42","slug":"does-syfy-assume-their-entire-audience-is-ignorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/06\/14\/does-syfy-assume-their-entire-audience-is-ignorant\/","title":{"rendered":"Does syfy assume their entire audience is ignorant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Gnostalgia raised some interesting questions about whether <a href=\"http:\/\/gnostalgia.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/09\/paranormal-tv-staging-vs-hoaxing\/\">paranormal TV is staged or hoaxed<\/a> (or  perhaps both). Barry\u2019s no more satisfied with Syfy\u2019s latest paranormal  programming offering (Haunted Collector)\u00a0than I am. And Finding Bigfoot  has only turned out to be laughable. (See also another great Gnostalgia  post: <a href=\"http:\/\/gnostalgia.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/07\/finding-bigfoot-on-talk-soup\/\">Finding Bigfoot on Talk Soup<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Let me give it to you straight: Syfy\u2019s done pissed me off royal. I  wanted to like Fact or Faked. But then they had to go and try to package  it as some kind of X-Files. Ben Hansen ain\u2019t no Mulder. (Even though <a href=\"http:\/\/hauntjaunts.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/29\/full-of-shit-time-magazine-and-fact-or-faked\/\">the show tries to profile him that way<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Now we\u2019ve got the Haunted Collector.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, where do I even begin with the woes I\u2019ve got about that show?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hauntjaunts.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/09\/does-syfy-assume-their-entire-audience-is-ignorant\/\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Gnostalgia raised some interesting questions about whether paranormal TV is staged or hoaxed (or perhaps both). Barry\u2019s no more satisfied with Syfy\u2019s latest paranormal programming offering (Haunted Collector)\u00a0than I am. And Finding Bigfoot has only turned out to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/06\/14\/does-syfy-assume-their-entire-audience-is-ignorant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}