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Doomsday Preppers has to be the saddest show on for profit TV since Honey Boo Boo: Really? On the National Geographic Channel?

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ThomasLite11/21/2012 6:00:39 pm PST

re: #14 Destro

I don’t mind the cringe but it’s on a channel with a storied educational name behind it “The National Geographic Channel”. The magazine is sold without ads to subscribers and that funded the expeditions they featured. Now it’s just a freak show channel…for the ad money….

Has it been anything else for the last 10 or 15 years, though? I think I caught the tail end of actual education on discovery/natgeo when I was 10 or so (13 years ago) down here and the US usually ‘leads’ in such ‘developments’ by a few years (since all we see is imported US shows on those channels!). I think people have gotten more or less used to the UFO/Ghost hunters/WWII conspiracy shows by now - a bit of reality TV is actually better in that at least it doesn’t peddle conspiracy theories and is up-front about being devoid of actual content.

…Yeah, I prefer to look at the silver lining :P