There's a new post on documentaries and the media, which is a follow up to Stanton Friedman's recent article about a National Geographic show on Roswell. This one's by Dennis Balthaser, and details some of his problems with the recent show, and biased media documentaries in general.

Last summer I filmed with them here in Roswell for about 6 hours and not once during that time was I told by the film crew that the National Geographic special would obviously have an agenda that would be extremely biased by the time the one hour show ended after the editing was completed. I was also contacted several times by email and telephone requesting additional factual information about the Roswell Incident while the documentary was being prepared. I had a lot of airtime on the show and those that responded to me after viewing the show indicated that I came across honestly and sincerely in my comments that were used. I was thankful for that, but very disappointed with the overall show and factual information unfairly presented.

While I think it's great that "mainstream" media has been more interested in paranormal topics in general lately, I find it disturbing that so many of the pieces that claim to be doing fair shows are, in fact, really just hatchet jobs on the topic at hand. Not to say that there haven't been any good shows on paranormal topics over the last few years, there certainly have. However, I'm afraid that they're not the norm. Like both Mr. Friedman and Mr. Balthaser said, you really expect better from a respected name like National Geographic.