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Evidence for Stigma or Programming
The statistical truth is likely that most people are not current on UFO stories in the news. Most won’t know history, which is lamentable from journalist and academia expound on things without a history of fact and fiction that influences this. Consequently, many people tuning in for the first time are likely amused to hear an X-File joke or the theme cued in. It’s a human thing to prepare people for something to come, such as movie trailers playing music from past, popular movies. Mind you, that trick works. It works as well as subliminal advertising to increase the sale popcorn! If that theme resonated with you, you are likely to watch this movie.
Chris Lehto, the Lehto file, introduced a news segment that did had not one X-File joke or theme music. Have we moved forward? One day ago, I found news segment that leads with an X-file joke. One step forewords, two steps back. In the Lehto episode below, he also shows the skeptics demanding X-file jokes. It probably actually helps UFOlogy to have the jokes and be light hearted, as that brings in more people.
Does playing the X-file theme guarantee more people will tune in? There is a reason it was a beloved show!
