Channel 3 NBC news affiliate WSAV serving the Savannah, GA and Hilton Head, SC areas did what most news channels do come the Halloween season. They allow a “human interest” reporter to find a witch and do an interview for a brief filler of Halloween news. Now, granted as the years have passed there have been some good, if not shallow reporting and interviews with witches but on the general scale the people they chose to interview are local New Age shop owners who are not well informed on the history of their individual paths. When a reporter does come across a well informed and astute witch the norm is to cut the piece for tidbits on what the reporter thinks their news audience will accept in the way of actual information.
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From the weekly National Catholic Register comes an article from Father Dwight Longnecker entitled Are Witches Real? The good father enlightens us by writing that witches are indeed real and that commercialism of witches is only used to make people think that they are not real.

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Witchcraft-Documentary Review: Mysteries of History, History Channel International

I watched the History Channel Internationals documentary this morning on Witchcraft. Being previously encouraged from watching the main History Channel’s documentary on Halloween, I thought that the international channel viewpoint would be just as open ended. And for the majority of the hour long episode there was some educational handling of the witchcraft subject, just not through the duration of the program.

Please, keep in mind that the following information is from the review and notes taken during the documentary. I am aware that not all this information is correct historically, even though that is how all of the information was present by the History International Channel. So, let us begin on the review portion of today’s post on Simple Abnormality.

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Paganism casts spell over followers, an article published today as a special to the L.A. Times in fact is not that bad of an article in regard to showing Paganism.

The title is misleading as what the report focuses on is Wicca and not general Paganism. The sub-title is also misleading as it states: Wiccans and others mystical sects band together for political clout or just healing fairs, and plans are already being made for their annual gathering in October. Read full article here.

The L.A. Times states: This is the first in a series of occasional articles exploring alternative cultural life around Southern California.

Hopefully in the future though, they will look a little more closely at the construction of the article and the use of sweeping generalizations. Either way, it should be interesting to see how this new feature for the L.A. Times works out.

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