I tracked the chronological and geographical distribution of how the story had developed from my emails and talk with Steve Young at the Seattle Times, to the “death of Bigfoot” stupidity on the West Coast to the East Coast versions, which then skipped to the English and Scottish papers where the link between Wallace’s wife-as-Bigfoot films first became confused with the Patterson-Gimlin footage. Then I pointed out how the Scottish dispatch was picked up by the San Francisco and other California papers and the two film stories were merged in the American media’s mentality.

My analysis and critique of the media was to be presented at the Willow Creek symposium by me. But then, due to some local disagreements about the BFRO’s role in inviting people, and the lack of power John Green had in supporting my talk, I was “uninvited” because I was from the East Coast and not a “West Coast” researcher (despite my 40 plus years of bi-coastal investigations). That’s a whole other story, and I won’t go into it deeply here. But I was shocked to see that my media analysis began showing up on websites and in others’ talks, despite my initial discoveries of how the “mangling” occurred and actually evolved.