Always disappointed…

Always disappointing…the History Channel. The person that takes that as “history” is going to be malinformed indeed. It’s not even just uncareful information, misinformation, but sensationalization.

The channel is obsessed with things like aliens. It does constantly present misinformation: like they’ve done no real research and checking. It could be worse, they could be as the wider mass media and pretense to present information legit, rather than spin: those avenues like to cite their procedure, professional guidelines, etc., while they simultaneously source terrorists’ propaganda.

But as for quoting “experts” and “scholars” (which often are not, and often which are little more than selling snakes), it is more heinous: it goes for the purveyors of nonsense, whatever is fringe, and gives them pulpit to sell their goods to the unsuspecting who love such.

I have never seen a program by the channel I didn’t like, that didn’t make by blood boil at the dung it presents as historical to its audiences: the dubiousness and irresponsibility leaves me in disgust.

And of course it chooses topics that will pique interest: aliens, the Bible, theories about unsubstantiated ancient myths, atlantis, conspiracy theories, etc..

I wouldn’t wish to disparage people of practically any source, in general, if they are warned and learned to use sources critically, but I must say, the History channel, in my experience, has never been anything but hack programming.