If you thought the “balloon boy” story would float away, think again. With the latest news that a key law enforcement official has now branded the nationally covered incident a hoax, it will be more in the news than ever. Scroll below to read our blog posts, but here’s a cross section videos showing of how some of the news organizations are covering the latest news.
Sheriff Jim Alderden of Larimer County calls it a hoax (CNN):
CNN’s earlier report about how the balloon boy story was blowing up:
The AP’s breaking news video, which is posted on You Tube with embed codes which signifies they want other sites to embed:
TMV offers some of the same snippet:
The CBS video is here. (We won’t embed it since the CBS code replays the video here over and over.)
There are three videos that will be shown forever when this story is mentioned and discussed:
1. 6-year-old Falcon admits that it is a hoax when interviewed on CNN:
2. Falcon goes on the Today Show and vomits. Was he sick? Or was he upset for having to talk about the subject some more when he knew (if the new law enforcement charges are correct) that he had been sucked into a hoax?
3. Falcon vomits on Good Morning America. See our questions above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwhZrVvwPz4
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.