More and more people are depending on podcasts and the internet for their daily news updates. But there is no overall Web Editor to do a reality check on content. So, finding out what is factual is an ever-increasing challenge. In this Earthfiles August 2007 podcast, a headline circulating on the web for weeks is called false by astronomers. Also, Texas media keep calling the strange, grey animal seen and photographed over the past four years as a “chupacabras,” but it’s not the goat-sucker of Puerto Rico, Mexico and South America.
