I am pleased to see people objecting to the self-promotion. I find it particularly offensive that Linda, for all her use of Coast in her incestuous marketing loop, refers people to her website Earthfiles.com every other word, when she could very easily upload the pertinent photos to the Coast website for her presentation LIKE EVERY OTHER GUEST DOES!
Why does she get questions fed to her which she can answer by providing a plug? Just like the poster above mentioned, a Linda Moulton Howe segment does not require a host. And since theirs is on the golly-gee level, it's a perfect solution.
I love some solid research (which doesn't include her opinions on the state of mind of people she has hauled off to Rendelsham Forest for a saucer recreation fest), but doesn't it annoy you that she uses complete sentences over and over, so that the conversation actually bogs down? What's with that--has Anderson Cooper been taking sound bites and using them for his show? Has CNN been misquoting her?
GET READY FOR CONVERSATIONS WITH LINDA (where callers will ask, in complete sentences, questions very similar to the ones George read from the card that Linda provided and Linda will reply in complete sentences.)
There's also been a switch with LMH's approach. Instead of the reporting, fact-gathering, interviewing and corroborating reported incidents of high strangeness, she is now creating them. In her latest attempt at generating material, she hauled those Rendelsham witnesses back to the forest for what? So they could recreate their saucer experience ala civil war re-enactment style. Then she reports on the "result."
No credible scientist would have stooped to that. This is not the "verified reportial" contribution George said Linda makes. Next thing she'll be jumping on the cruise bandwagon and announce the opportunity to be trapped with her aboard the Carnival for a week. And she will be bringing slides of cattle carcasses, crop circle sketches and maps showing body locations for seal mutilations. Party on!
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I respect guests who promote their books or websites,
but what LMH does is totally deceptive.
She always says it like you really could just surf to her page
and see the picture/document, but of course you can't.
And she never uploads anything to the Coast website
for people to see of course, like you pointed out.
She talks like she is some kind of computer that has words
sampled in only one pitch, and then just strings them together.
It nearly hurts listening.
And her interviews... well, I don't mind if people use some memo-sheet,
but she just reads them from a card 1:1 like a schoolgirl.