Journal Question: What is your point of view on "The Balloon Story"? Do you agree or disagree with the charges? How do you feel about the children's role in this?
I think that this hoax was a stupid idea to increase publicity for an upcoming television show. There are other ways they could have increased awareness without having to resort to a national hoax that wasted the country's time and resources to attempt to rescue a child who was supposedly in the balloon, but instead he was hiding in the attic the entire time. The family should have placed advertisements in newspapers, magazines, on television, and on the Internet if they wanted to promote their show, not pretend their son was floating away in a homemade balloon.
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