Talk:George Knapp (journalist)
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Despite my best efforts, I have been unable to find any confirmation of Knapp ever winning the Edward E. Murrow National Award in 2004. That his info does not include what did he win the other awards for (and when), his entire 'career' is another indicator that there's something wrong in all of this. Importance? Not much of it, except that Knapp's work is cited as evidence to support outlandish claims of Bob Lazar in another Wiki article. Someone should deal with it. Marko Parabucki (talk) 12:08, 5 December 2007 (UTC)Marko Parabucki
- I looked into the purported UPI award in 1990 - which seems unlikely. The UPI was only a shadow of its former self by then, and was in bankrupcty. That was the period of time when Chuck Harder and his associates was attempting to buy UPI. Their awards page [1] (this is awards they received, not gave) ends abruptly at 1976. I'm going to be bold and declare the entire awards paragraph to be a defacto self-published source for which independent sources are needed. The local Emmy awards can be confirmed for at least the last two years, but it is my opinion that each one needs to be listed and identified so that readers/editors can confirm the existence of each award and judge their significance to his credentials as a journalist.StreamingRadioGuide (talk) 05:53, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
I removed the paragraph regarding "media reports" about his work at the public relations firm and cleaned up the related POV bias regarding the purported assocation with the nuclear waste facility. The supplied reference gets a 404 error and is not available in archive.org. Regarding his "Emmy" awards, they are local Emmy awards within the local media area. Depending on the source, he has between 8 and 20 of them, but they should not be confused with the national awards. Local Emmys are commonly used to dress up a media person's biography.StreamingRadioGuide (talk) 05:37, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
The UFORC "reference" is to a web site that isn't responding. One of the requirements to be a credible source is that it is not a group actively promoting a fringe point of view. That begs the question of what would be an example of a reliable source on the topic of UFOs for which I don't have an answer. I'm not removing it, just questioning it... (and no, I'm not a grey, at least I don't think so).StreamingRadioGuide (talk) 06:10, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Citations & References
See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton | Chit-Chat 04:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
