{"id":993,"date":"2004-07-19T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2004-07-19T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T01:13:00","slug":"buried-secret-goes-to-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"Buried Secret Goes to Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/z071904mknight.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 220px;\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/z071904mknight.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The                          <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Sci Fi <\/b><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">channel has, for weeks, been advertising                          an <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8220;unauthorized documentary&#8221;<\/b><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"> [some even                          called it a <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8220;disturbing expose&#8221;<\/b><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"> ] about                          <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">M. Knight Shyamalan<\/b><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">.  The story was that <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">M. Knight<\/b><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">                          first cooperated, but then tried to shut it down when                          producers delved too deeply into his personal life. The                          documentary advertised that it would present a<\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\"> &#8220;buried                          secret.&#8221;<\/b>                       <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ll be the first to admit that the <b>documentary<\/b>                          sounded interesting, but something about it just didn&#8217;t                          seem right.  My<b> wife<\/b> speculated, a couple of weeks                          ago, that <b>M. Knight <\/b>was probably behind the whole                          thing&#8230; and it turns out she was right.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">                       <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">Today the <b>Sci Fi <\/b>cable network and parent company<b>                          NBC Universal<\/b> acknowledged that the documentary was                          really part of a<b> &#8220;guerrilla marketing&#8221;<\/b>                          hoax that went too far.   It seems that &#8220;a number of                          entertainment journalists&#8230;&#8221; were left &#8220;&#8230;grumbling                          after they were duped&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">                       <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">I watched the special and it was <b>so obvious<\/b> that                          the doc was set -up, that anyone who is upset because                          they were duped should be upset with himself for being                          so gullible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sci Fi channel has, for weeks, been advertising an &#8220;unauthorized documentary&#8221; [some even called it a &#8220;disturbing expose&#8221; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}