I was checking out the TAPS website and noticed an interesting disparity on the list of requirements to be considered part of the TAPS family. There is a section that says "These are things we look for when screening your website" and number 1 reads like this:
"1. An investigators/team profile section, that allows the client to see and read about the members of your team."
Okay. Fair enough. BUT…on TAPS own website, under TAPS members, we only get a picture and the persons' name and their position on the team. No credentials, no background, nothing stating degrees held or years of experience, number of investigations in which they were participants, etc. I guess their logic must be that, since they are on television, we already know all about them so sharing this information with the general public and people who might be considering hiring them to do investigations is not necessary.
It seems to me they should be leading by example (cough!) but again, I'm guessing they don't deem that necessary when it comes to their own website.
I guess their logic must be that, since they are on television, we already know all about them so sharing this information with the general public and people who might be considering hiring them to do investigations is not necessary.
They would have us believe that Jay and Grant are actually Roto-Rooter plumbers, when in fact, they are not, but just Roto-Rooter billboards. I guess plumbers were picked by Pilgrim as one of the better "Joe Schmo" type of jobs that off-duty Paranormal Investigators would be, maybe Jason's idea as he does hold a one year apprentice license as a plumber. Plumbers must be licensed in Rhode Island, I don't think you would want someone to install your in-sink garbage disposal, turn it on with the water running and get thrown across the room not by a ghost, but by an electrical shock. It is a docu-drama, like Most Haunted, but with a more "investigative aspect". Most Haunted is labelled a documentary, but we know it's all re-enactment.
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11:48 am September 23, 2009
Angelayo1970
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I looked at their website and that does seem pretty hypocritical to say that other groups should give information about their team members yet they give nothing themselves. But really, this is what we've come to expect from them. They definitely seem to have a "Do as I say, not as I do" mentality when it comes to deciding if other "lesser" teams are good enough to belong to the TAPS family.
So Tas, are you saying that you think TAPS wasn't investigating as a group before the show? Are they The Monkees of the paranormal television world?? I'm so confused! LOL
"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei
Actually, the members of the Ghost Hunters show have very little to do with the TAPS Family Oraganization. The rules and managment of the TAPS family are not done by anyone who you see on TV. Sure Jason had some involvement in the beginning of the formation of the TAPS family, and he keeps in touch with the management to make sure things are running smoothly, but it's ran outside of anything that has to do with the TV show.
The management is a dedicated group investigators, and their teams all uphold the same criteria that they enforce the rest of the groups to have. The TV show is just that, a TV show, of course they are not expected to meet any of the criteria, nor did they make the rules that are being enforced.
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