Discovery is full of shows all about people looking for things but not discovering them.
It is frustrating. I still haven’t found that damn Grail yet.
One does have to know the airspeed velocity of an unlaiden swallow.
European or African?
If you think of Discovery like how Christopher Columbus “discovered” America, it does seem fitting. A bunch of bullshit that later lead to genocide and scorched earth. This seems fitting for what they’ve done to HBO and all the other IP they’ve gobbled up and destroyed.
Last time I watched anything like that, probably on netflix, they where looking for pirate gold and actually found it … buried in a military munitions burial area they couldn’t reasonably or legally excavate.
no need to finish that then
Manchurian gold?
Pirate Gold of Adak Island probably worth a watch even though I spoiled the ending
The cowards
Yea what pussies.
Homestead Rescue is cool. That’s about it.
All those examples (except MTV) is David Zaslav hard at work. So glad he’s in charge of WB now!
Murdoch bought Fox News and History Channel around the same time.
So… No brothers I guess?
Its all simple minded commercial fodder. Geared to hold the attention of the slow witted emotion driven masses long enough to throw ads down their psychological throats
Don’t forget Animal Planet, which hosts shows about tree houses and mermaids now.
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But there are letters on ABC.
Checkmate, atheists.
No Turner on the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS)
Enshittification time
What are these, tv channels ? youtube ? they seem badly named
USA cable crap
Don’t even get me started about the Body Shop.
No bodies I suppose. The old bait and switch.
Olive oil is made of olives… at least in Italy it is. Anyway, what about baby oil? Better not think about it.
In Africa because of the large number of languages they put pictures of what’s in the package on the label. Gerber baby food had some issues when it first sold in Africa.
Ouch! That was pretty brutal. Goes to show that you have to understand the market you’re trying to operate in.
I just wanted a couple of them for my own reasons and now I have a lifetime ban from the place.
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And there is no queen of England
There is a King and Queen of England though.
- walks with butt *
There’s no entertainment on BET
Because of capitalism. Because all content must drive quarterly profit ever-higher.
Meanwhile, public broadcasting (PBS) is still putting out great content for families regardless of profitability.
There’s no foxes on Fox News either.
Nor news
Yeah, because they own the rights to the name. If only I ran Fox News… damn them.
Today on Fox News
This one is taking a nap in the snow. Was it a good nap? Did they have nice dreams? We’ll investigate!
All of those channels were idealistic and naive. The reality of capitalism destroyed them.
Capitalism just takes advantage of human nature. That’s why it has clearly been the most successful system, at least as a starting point, for the overall well being of a nation.
The issue with these channels is that most people just don’t give a fuck about the information. They want to be entertained. Capitalism is just good system that enabled that to be figured out.
Your issue is not with capitalism, but human nature.
That’s a bingo!
So it’s a most or nothing situation? They need to be maximally broadly appealing? That sounds like capitalism to me.
I don’t care if only a certain percentage of people are into these channels. That should be just fine. It is just fine. And I’m not here to guilt anyone because they don’t like watching history shows or whatever else.
The economic model failed the audience of the original versions of these channels. It’s not society as a whole that failed the producers of the channels.
They need to be maximally broadly appealing? That sounds like capitalism to me.
“broadly appealing” means “human nature.” This is my point. Capitalism is just a good system to figure this out. You want stuff that appeals to you, as do I. But that stuff is boring to most other people. Most people like this drivel, unfortunately. You just want a system that caters to you, and your niche interests (ones we likely share, BTW). You just want the stuff you want on what is available to the broad public. . . .But why is that fair to the majority?
And you know what? With things like youtube, podcasts, and streaming (all thanks to capitalism, BTW), all of that is available to you. Just not on inappropriately named cable stations. Why do you care? Do you even get cable? Who does anymore? Even my pre-boomer dad has cut the cord.
Don’t get me wrong. Capitalism certainly has it’s faults. There are certain things, like policing, fire protection, and health care, that simply don’t fit into the mold of capitalism well. Even as a well off American, I’m all for strong socialism for many things, like what we see in Europe.
I just find the concept that “these aren’t the original intent of the channels. . .what a failure of capitalism!” to be kind of funny. Who really cares?
