re: #465 Kragar

Discovery, and their other outlet Science Channel, are big on Aliens right now.

History Channel is consumed with marginal and fringe American lifestyle rather than “history”.

National Geographic is using techniques in their shows that are overly manipulatory or falsely dramatic - for example, in their show on the discovery of A. sediba (the “2 Million Year Old Boy”) they use strong side-lighting and low-lighting in their interviews in order to make everything threatening and dramatic, probably because the American audience would be too bored with straightforward exposition.

This need to be entertained, rather than educated, is behind, I assert, the drive on the internet for the extremes in the postings of attention-getters (say, Malkin or Breitbart) is to tap into this market to be entertained, rather than be factually informed.