Even those shows look like PBS fare compared to what they've got now, like Ancient Idiots and America Unhinged. Sorry, I mean Ancient Aliens and America Unearthed. I'm hugely familiar with most of the talking heads on Ancient Aliens, and they're even stupider on camera than they are in their books. The host of America Unearthed is an egotistical blowhard who has no training in archaeology or anthropology (he's a forensic geologist, as he never stops reminding us - that means mostly he studies concrete) who thinks that "field work" means standing out in a field, in front of an old American Indian mound, and expounding on why it was really built by the Knights Templar. And, as someone else pointed out, it gets even worse!
Pro wrestling on SyFy, naked survivalists walking across Costa Rica on Discovery, shows about food on Biography, "Hunting Bigsuit" on Animal Planet - and never mind what A&E, TLC, Bravo, and others are shoveling out these days. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it gets worse.
Well, I'm glad I got all that off my chest. I'm feeling MUCH better now!
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"Oh, well" said Zanoni, "to pour pure water in the muddy well does but disturb the mud !"
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