The NewsNation special was embarrassing, and I think that might have been the point.

Imagine you've been trying to convince one of your skeptical friends about the phenomenom. You constantly tell them about things and they just kind of roll their eyes and look at you as if you're an idiot.

Then, after having read Ross' book, and thinking him to be a reliable source, you see his posts teasing this "undeniable evidence" and talking about how this special is going to be life changing.

You tell your friend that on Saturday there's this big special prepared, it's a huge TV event. 8pm! Watch it!!

The next day you see them and they look at you with a mixture of amusement, pity and disgust. You try to tell them "yeah, I didn't really like it either, it was pretty terrible", but the damage is already done, they aren't listening. You try to tell them to check out a James Fox documentary or some of Grusch's testimony and they say "no, there's absolutely no way I'm watching any of that crap ever again after what you made me sit through last night."

Could this be the point of what we just saw? Because (and I say this as someone who is very open minded and who didn't have high expectations) that report was a fucking embarrassment. I felt embarrassed to be watching it, and it makes us as a community look terrible.