“Actual footage” of a merman… sort of: courtesy of Animal
Planet. The growing trend among television producers to grind out fake
documentaries has numerous worrisome implications for the survival of a free
society.
The grainy, crepuscular quality of the photo above is
deliberate. The image was presented on The Discovery Channel/Animal Planet’s
now infamous mock-documentary, Mermaids: The Body Found,
as appearing on a boy’s cell phone just an instant before the terrified kid
took to his heels. Two lads, so the story goes, somehow sneak onto a beach
along the Pacific coast which the military has cordoned off (after testing a
mysterious deep-sea sonar weapon). The boys find the sandy corpse of a
seal-like creature with oddly human hands. As they poke further, the beast,
summoning its few remaining vital sparks, rears up and yields the image almost
accidentally captured as the young explorers flee in horror………. and, of course,
there is a patently sinister side to operations calling themselves The History
Channel and The Discovery Channel feeding us realism-coated garbage. When did
fantasy become history? When did delirium become science? ……To Read More……
My Take - Someone once said something like - Everything
you see on the news is absolutely true, unless of course what they're
presenting is something you actually know a lot about. I pretty much stopped
watching the Discovery channel years ago and the history channel's bounce
between interesting and a joke, and I'm never sure which is going to be shown
that day. I really wonder where they find these "experts" and PhD's
with their absurd views, especially the “scholars” from religious institutions.
I'm convinced they're as whacky as the losers who appear on Jerry Springer's
show telling the world all their dark and seamy secrets. I keep wondering what
in the world would possess someone to be that stupid. Don't they realize they
have to go home and face their family, friends and workmates? Apparently it
doesn't matter as long as they had their moment of fame on television. As for
these “experts” – clearly a case of over educated and under smart, and besides,
who ever said that education was a gaurantor of class or integrity?
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