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Posted by Bill S on November 23, 2007 at 3:30:34 pm EST
In reply to OH NO! THEY'RE BAAACCCKKK! posted by Bill S on November 2, 2007 at 12:32:57 pm EDT

FMD, I don't watch "prime time TV", whatever that is, so I don't know what you are talking about. The only thing I watch on the commercial channels is the local evening news (and not often then). I do occasionally watch PBS, History, Discovery, NASA, NatGeo, VS (when they have bike races on), and a few others.

Unfortunately, History and Discovery (owned by the same company, I understand) have taken to showing fiction (like the Everest thing) as if it were factual. Same with some formerly reasonable magazines. The result is that the general public believes this junk is true, with the Discovery Everest program as a prime example. Yeah, yeah, so there was a real climb on Everest by the Hells Angel and the woman who had never climbed anything before. But the hype and emphasis on "extreme" and gross distortions that come through the selective editing, and all that means that the public does not realize that what is being portrayed is all the wrong reasons to go climbing, and that done right, climbing even on Everest is safer than driving on the freeways.

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