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I’ll never understand what live television became

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The goal of the networks is to sell ads. If this gets more views then it gets shown. Nothing more to it than that. You’re looking for quality entertainment. They want to sell over priced car warranties. Those are very different goals and so the paths have diverged.

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They cater to their audience. And who in this day and age is spending lots of time watching cable TV?

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I remember the days when those channels actually played what the first images show. I used to love the history Channel

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History channel: “We don’t understand basic concepts of engineering or physics, so here’s some shit about how aliens must have built the pyramids. We also have no idea how skyscrapers or bridges are constructed, so that must have been aliens too.”

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The Learning Channel (TLC) is just white trash reality TV now.

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If Discovery’s reality “people in the jungle” is anything like the Primitive Technology channel on YouTube, that might be good. I was really impressed by that, and it was popular on Reddit. Some guy – IIRC a Kiwi – heads out to the forest with nothing other than his shorts and starts building up technology from scratch, using only what’s in the forest – last I watched, he’d gotten up to iron production.

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Looks like the guy is still going:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

EDIT: Aussie, not Kiwi.

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I’m convinced this guy is going to cure most diseases and colonize Mars before the rest of us do.

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