Re: BEWARE! "HISTORY" CHANNEL IS A SCAM!
Torquemada
What do lumberjacks, truck drivers etc have to do with history (other than
they look and behave like
> Neanderthals)?
>
> Also, the "history" channel is disguising programming on theories of
> catastrophes.
>
> Not only that, when they produce programs about historical events and
> characters, their research is appalling with most of the information
> included lacking historical accuracy.
>
> I stopped watching the "history" channel last year and warn everybody
> about taking the history channel seriously, especially my students.
>
> Students, some at the university level, watch it, and think that they are
> watching valuable historically researched information. That is a terrible
> harm that the money grabbing producers behind this "history" channel are
> causing students.
>
> As a historian I will do everything to spread the warning to my students
> and anyone that will listen.
>
> I am taking the issue to the FCC and have mentioned it to my local
> Congressman and Senator, who happened to be very good friends. Let's see
> where this leads.
>
> This type of programming is worse than pornography. At least when you're
> watching porn, you know what you are watching. With the "history" channel
> programming insinuates itself into our living rooms masquerading as
> something else. It is insulting, it is wrong and from an academic point of
> view, terribly dangerous.
>
> Peter Bond
>