Regarding the Discovery Channels fraudulent youtube video that seemed to show a bull shark in Lake Ontario: Quote: So why would they create such a video in the first place? University of Miami shark scientist David Shiffman has an answer. “Shark Week seems to believe that real stories about real animals aren’t enough to get the public’s attention, so they lied,” he said. “I wish this surprised me.” Shiffman is alluding to the fact that forgery and deception seem to have become par for the course for Discovery and Shark Week. It was bad enough when, a few years ago, their child network Animal Planet released a pair of “documentaries” on mermaids, in which they faked video footage to plant the idea that mermaids exist but are being covered up by the government. Those specials, at least, carried a disclaimer that flashed briefly explaining that parts of it were “fictional”. Then, spurred by the popularity of those programs, last year’s Shark Week kicked off with Megalodon: The Monster Shark That Lives, which opted to use the word “dramatized” over “fictional” in its lightning-fast disclaimer. More than two-thirds of their audience, by their own poll, was convinced by the entirely faked “documentary” into believing C. megalodon may indeed still roam the seas. Discovery didn’t care that their audience and shark scientists worldwide were outraged by the program—they got record ratings, after all. This year, Megalodon: The New Evidence is among the programs that will air during Shark Week. But another fauxmentary just wasn’t enough for Discovery—they, for some reason, felt the need to drum up fear in Canada to get more people to watch their unscientific nonsense. This time, they’ve gone too far.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 07:02:47 +0000
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