Above the Fold and the Fringe: How UAPs Became Mainstream News
Somewhere in the Skies
Ryan Sprague
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On episode 323 of SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES, we welcome back Mike Damante to discuss his new book, Above the Fold and the Fringe: How UAPs Became Mainstream News, which goes behind the scenes of the infamous 2017 New York Times article and examines the history of UAPs in news media. Damante also explores the significant impact these stories have had on the public. With interviews from the journalists behind some of the biggest UAP stories like the New York Times' Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, POLITICO's Bryan Bender, KLAS-TV's George Knapp, Popular Mechanics Tim McMillan, and others, Damante navigates how the news industry works and provides insight into some of the biggest UAP stories ever to be broken. Today, Damante breaks down the new world of UFO journalism, using as an example the latest bombshell article published by The Debrief, concerning an Intelligence official who claims the U.S. is in possession of "Non-Human" craft of "Unknown Origins."
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| 0:00.0 | This is somewhere in the skies, with Ryan's bread. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey guys, Ryan's spread here from somewhere in the skies and welcome to a brand |
| 0:37.0 | new episode. This interview could not have come at a better time and you're |
| 0:43.0 | going to know why in just a few moments. We have back on the show a returning |
| 0:49.0 | guest, one of our fan favorites and that is Mike Demonte, author, journalist, |
| 0:55.0 | UFO researcher, punk rock aficionado. One of the coolest people I have the honor |
| 1:02.0 | of knowing in the UFO field and he just came out with a brand new book and I want |
| 1:07.0 | to get the full title right here. So forgive me. Above the fold and the fringe, |
| 1:12.0 | how UAPs became mainstream news. So of course, we're going to talk about the |
| 1:19.0 | UFO crash retrieval elephant in the room. This bombshell article that came out |
| 1:25.0 | at the debrief very recently. You know, this this episode will come out a little |
| 1:31.0 | after that. But yeah, it could not tie in more to everything we're going to be |
| 1:36.0 | talking about tonight with our guests. So let's waste no more time. Let's bring |
| 1:40.0 | him in back to somewhere in the skies. We have Mike Demonte. Welcome back, |
| 1:45.0 | brother. Thank you for having me. And I get set it over off the air. The one reason |
| 1:50.0 | why I do this, you know, the right UFO box is to be on your show and talk to you. |
| 1:53.0 | So gives me excuse to change my chat with my buddy. We're in. |
| 1:58.0 | Absolutely. You know, I always tell people a lot of the UFO community. The UFOs |
| 2:04.0 | are actually just the glue that hold all our friendships together. But we, |
| 2:09.0 | you and I were chatting off air long before this and before colleagues were |
| 2:14.0 | friends. So this is going to be a fun discussion, man. You just came out with a |
| 2:19.0 | brand new book at Beyond the Freight Publishing, the same publisher that publishes |
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