Talk:George Knapp (television journalist)

message: 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)
replies: text: 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  (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)
thread_title:  Edward E. Murrow National Award 

message: 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)
thread_title: Citations & References

message: I'm going to try and verify his claimed awards with some good sources.  From what I understand most of his emmys are claimed for the show "Street talk", he also claims mark twain awards.  I think only one of his awards was for his UFO work, the rest were for far more mundane subjects.
Here's the first one I found:
http://www.nataspsw.org/emmy2007.asp
"Specialty Reporting: Environment
· Water Grab, George Knapp, Matthew Adams, KLAS-TV
· California Condors, Wendy Thies, KSBY-TV
· Cementerio de Llantas, Claudia Rodriguez, KBNT Univision San Diego"
The mention of KLAS-TV there should make it certain it's the same Knapp in my opinion.
the emmy pages only seem to have recent winners, the same with the mark twain awards at http://www.aptra.com/  Also, some of the ones he won may have been as awards to KLAS for news, not knapp in particular, but his team.
It seems really tough to research this online, in part due to the flood of sites that will not be deemed RS, due the UFO content.  This is the closest I found to a reliable site, and while the site may be deemed OK, as a mainstream news source, it appears to be just a standard bio, so who knows what level of fact check went into that:
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?s=175403
Will try and find more...
Whothewhat (talk) 20:57, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awards 

message: Wikipedia itself references George Knapp as a long-time host of Coast_to_Coast_AM, the 14th most listened to radio show in North America and dominant in its time slot for more than 15 years. A nationally and internationally syndicated radio show with a US weekly audience of 2.75m unique weekly listeners in the fully cited List_of_most-listened-to_radio_programs wiki page. This alone makes a journalist and broadcaster notable, no?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robbyyy (talk • contribs) 05:58, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does Knapp have a question mark next to his notability? 

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message: Regarding this much needed rollback to the last good version of the article: recent changes had left the article looking like a whitewashed WP:RESUME. WP:SPAs had been watering down sourced criticism , adding WP:PUFFERY that is unsourced or sourced to promotional materials  etc. Per WP:BLPSELFPUB, press releases or publicity materials that are unduly self-serving, involve claims about third parties, and weight the article so it is based primarily on such sources should be avoided. 
Since Knapp is best known for and primarily engaged in the promotion of ufo conspiracy theories, WP:FRINGE and WP:FRINGEBLP apply to this article. We need to avoid using sources that promote or merely repeat WP:EXTRAORDINARY claims uncritically. WP:FRIND sources are best to use when describing extraordinary claims. When extraordinary or fringe claims are made, a rough WP:PARITY of sources can help provide critique or analysis of those claims. 
*"George Knapp was (and still is) very much a believer in aliens, having built a considerable segment of his career in promoting the claims of Area 51 confabulator Bob Lazar as factual. " Skeptical Inquirer
*"a dangerous new rage that is overtaking some conspiracy-oriented UFO believers and influencers, who are demanding “disclosure now” by the government about its purported encounters with aliens. Helping to fuel this rage, broadcaster George Knapp and filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, whose Netflix movie promoted hoax “scientist” Bob Lazar, claim the government has a live alien and crashed vehicles it hasn’t told us about." Washington Spectator
*"George Knapp is the go-to journalist for all things concerning To The Stars, or Bob Lazar, Robert Bigelow, or anything UFOlogical for that matter. Knapp doesn’t care if a story is true or not, so long as it boosts his ratings." Skeptic Magazine
*"In the middle 1990s Bigelow began funneling money from his hotel business into the study of fringe science, particularly UFOs and the paranormal. This is when he crossed paths with Las Vegas journalist George Knapp, another longtime Democrat, and UFO nut. Knapp had been reporting incredible (literally and figuratively) stories about Area 51 and government UFO secrets since the 1980s, but in 1991 Knapp left his journalism career to do public relations work for a company representing advocates of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. The company attempted unsuccessfully to lobby Sen. Harry Reid, who had been elected in 1987 and opposed the waste site. But the connections formed would play an unwitting role in creating the UFO research funding decades later." Jason Colavito
*"Grusch had close ties with the usual suspects—prepped by Chris Mellon, advised by George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell, flanked by a UFO documentary crew," Jason Colavito
*Various criticism of Knapp Jason Colavito
*"George Knapp is a journalist who turns up absolutely anywhere there might be a good story about UFOs." Robert Scheaffer, Badufos
There is likely more critical analysis of Knapp and his work available. The article should not be avoiding it. - LuckyLouie (talk) 15:58, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Just a reminder, self-published blogs (by Colavito or anyone else) are never to be used in BLPs per WP:EXPERTSPS and WP:BLPSPS. --Animalparty! (talk) 05:49, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent changes by [[WP:SPA]]s 

message: @DuncanGT: please discuss your desired changes here first. I don't think you understand the encyclopedia's editorial policies. For example, this edit directly contradicts the cited source. And this edit is cited to a promotional page by the subject of the article, rather than an independent source. WP:EDITWAR against consensus is not the way to go. - LuckyLouie (talk) 20:03, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I support all their changes. 216.164.226.167 (talk) 15:31, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

text: I do not support all their changes. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 15:50, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit warring 

message: PLEASE ENTER THE CORRECT BIRTHDAY 172.103.156.31 (talk) 11:17, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Melmann 14:44, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 26 February 2024 

message: Here is the updated version of George Knapp's trip to Russia with reliable mainstream source data:
Over a ten-day period In March of 1993, Knapp traveled to the former USSR to meet with government officials,  scientists and investigators to learn more about Russian UFO/UAP investigations. According to Colonel  Boris Sokolov, the entire USSR, the entire military had a standing order to fully investigate these anomalous events and report back to the Ministry of Defense. Knapp was able to obtain copies of these investigative reports which included classified information for thousands of UFO/UAP incidents. According to Sokolov, the Russians wanted to duplicate this advanced UFO/UAP technology to beat the United States in terms of stealth technology. ​
Knapp also learned that a number of Russian scientists had been studying this phenomena in secret for a long time often at their own peril. On his subsequent trip to Russia in 1996, Knapp met with scientists who studied UFO/UAP landing sites. This included the work of Dr. Yuri Simakov, a biologist looking at microorganisms in the soil at UFO landing sites. Simakov found little opaque orbs or spheres in the soil and gave them to Knapp who brought them back to the US for further study.     ​
Knapp's investigative UFO/UAP work in Russia has been confirmed by Colonel Boris Sokolov, the UK Ministry of Defence, MUFON, Dr. Hal Puthoff, and in Knapp's own words on the record submitted into the US Congressional record by Representative Tim Burchett. ​
Knapp further determined similarities between US and Russian UFO/UAP programs and messaging to the public.  Both countries said "nothing to see here" but behind the scenes maintained secret UFO/UAP studies. DuncanGT (talk) 08:08, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Reliability is not determined by you using random criteria, but by WP:RS. WP:SENSATIONAL and WP:FRINGE apply too. --Hob Gadling (talk) 13:40, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated credible and reliable sources for Knapp's Russia trip