The History Channel has gotten really bad

[Kaleva]

Briefly watched it today where the show was discussing the possibility that it was aliens, by use of some kind of gravity device, which caused the meteor to crash into the earth and wipe out the dinosaurs.

[Populist_Prole]

1. Absolutely unwatchable now.

Also, the spin-offs, 'The Military Channel' and 'The Military History Channel' have become superficial commercials for the MIC that make anyone but a jingoistic teatard throw up in their mouths.

[Sherman A1]

2. Gotten bad?

It has been miserable for a very, very long time.

[valerief]

27. +1

[jakeXT]

3. Is the Austrian painter underrepresented ? /nt

[Frank Cannon]

21. The monorchic mustached one hasn't made an appearance...

In quite some time.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Yes, but it runs some serious documentaries ...

... about Sasquatch, and about the Loch Ness monster.

Those are certainly redeeming.

[station001]

5. They try to balance entertainment and education

but it seems they found there was more advertiser money in the entertainment side

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. When it was the Hitler Channel at least it was doing history

and not stupid shit like aliens and yetis.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. They've been liars and fabricators for a long time

Many years ago, it had a series in which it would review the events of a given year in the twentieth century.

When it reviewed 1980, it treated the election of Ronald Reagan as some huge refreshing breakthrough and --this goes beyond opinions and is a matter of lying about the facts--said that Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador had been murdered by leftist guerrillas.

This was not only completely false but went against what even the MSM stated at the time: that Romero was shot down by right-wing death squads while celebrating Easter Mass.

I lost all respect for the History Channel at that moment.

[The Second Stone]

8. The Ancient Aliens Channel is worse than the Hitler Channel

and makes Chum Lee of Pawn Stars look like high comedy.

[kairos12]

9. History of Sponge Bob is next.

[Archae]

10. I haven't watched the Hysteria Channel in years.

I still watch occasional programs on the "American Heroes" channel, formerly the Military Channel.

I still like military hardware porn.

And programs about Hitler's "leftovers" (old bunkers, big projects, etc) are still fascinating.

This afternoon and evening are all WW2 documentaries.

[Populist_Prole]

26. But even the military/wings stuff started getting bad

'Dogfights' and the like too. Superficial, poorly researched ( I'm a WW2 hardware geek ) with annoying as hell repetition ( after commercial breaks, they spend 2 minutes basically repeating what's already been covered ) and obviously designed to appeal to slobbering, flag-waving mouth breathers chanting "USA! USA! USA!".

[Archae]

28. Sometimes, yes.

Other times the History Channel or Military Channel had great detailed shows on, like the story of WW2 as seen from the aircraft carrier "Enterprise," with detail going even into what weapon hit where.

("Enterprise 360&quot

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. The science channel is terrible - well it never was good to begin with

but apart from a couple of shows like Through The Wormhole it's become the How It's Made channel, where every day they keep re-running that show about how gumballs are made and other boring things. Back in the early 1950s they had Industry On Parade which I thought was torture to sit through as a kid. If the History channel had interesting shows speculating about the existence of aliens it might be watchable, but it's become a joke where there's really no limit to how far they will stretch credibility to attribute everything to aliens.

[gvstn]

20. If you are ever bored enough

This site has a three hour video that goes through and debunks several of the Ancient Alien theories with clips from the show that is pretty good. I'll admit I have watched enough of the real show to really enjoy listening to this guy's refutation.

http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/

[rurallib]

12. no history on the history channel, little weather on the weather channel,

science channel used to have things like 'science of the bible', Natgeo has little science, travel channel is more like a cooking channel.

JESUS CHRIST IF WE HAD SOME FUCKING COMPETITION IN THIS GODDAMNED COUNTRY AND IF THEIR WAS ANYTHING CLOSE TO A FREE MARKET THIS CRAP WOULD DRY UP.

Fear not though. I think there are well over 100 jesus channels, but not one muslim, hindi, Jewish, or atheist channel.

[Telcontar]

22. I'm afraid what you're seeing IS the result of competetion

People want to be entertained, not educated. Hence every attempt at an educational channel has devolved into a spectacle in order to maintain veiwership.

[rurallib]

23. you are right

I remember when A&E had actual arts. The couldn't draw flies.

[CrawlingChaos]

13. I understand they've got a special in the works based on exciting new Bigfoot evidence

Seeing is believing...

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http://nerdist.com/bigfoot-bundt-cake/

I don't remember a time when the History Channel wasn't a godawful joke.

[station001]

16. I would like a closer look at that evidence :D

and maybe a glass of milk!

[CrawlingChaos]

17. That's a critical part of the research

If you hope to fully digest the significance of this finding.

(sorry)

[sakabatou]

14. Yeah, it has but there's some good stuff on it too

[UTUSN]

15. Before it was The HITLER Channel, it was The Wings Channel. Now occasionally

it has reruns of well done stuff like Clash of the Gods. And the pyramids are timeless, all right. In the '70s the ivory tower Education theory was that teaching the pyramids was so over because what was in was relationships. They didn't see that pyramid bus coming.

[lovemydog]

18. I love Ancient Aliens guy (not for science, for this meme):

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ancient-aliens

[lovemydog]

19. Anyone here ever watched Vikings?

I saw an episode the other night and thought it was really cool.

[jakeXT]

24. If you search for Ragnar on DU I bet you'll get some results

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018587983

[lovemydog]

25. Thanks jakeXT.