NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ON TV
A comment about the "reality" show where venomous snakes were shown (more like exploited) being handled by religious believers.
When I was a kid we subscribed to the National Geographic, and I remember learning a lot about geography and more important about the different people around the world. It was presented in a slick first person way that a high schooler could enjoy, and emphasized, at least as far as I could tell, the truth in a non-commercial clearly written way with lots of informative pictures and maps.
I gave up on it in college. Maybe I outgrew it.
Recently (since I don't now live in the states we can get it on satellite), I checked out its TV channel a few times. They have gone cheap and crass aiming for a low-class audience based on people watching, hoping someone will get killed and they can see it. I guess that is what draws the TV audience they want -- idiots that can be easily influenced by advertising.
Sad, such an old institution has gone that way.
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