Comments on: Preventing History From Repeating Itself: Washington State Officials Charge “Ax Men” With Environmental Violations

By: Buddha Is Laughing

Buddha Is Laughing — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:53:11 +0000

Speaking of bad history, Bush said he’s writing a book (yeah, right) about the 12 most difficult decisions he made while in office. This was his rationale. You decide if this was a Freudian slip. Given his propensity for mauling the language, it could be a mistake, but I don’t think so.

“‘I’m going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there’s an **authoritarian** voice saying exactly what happened,” Bush said.’” [emphasis added]

By: Buddha Is Laughing

Buddha Is Laughing — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:31:54 +0000

I have to make a retraction. The last time I watched History International was a couple of years ago when I spent some time in the hospital. I looked over their programming last night when I could not sleep and it is now every bit as bad as the usual THC programming. To add insult to injury, they’ve also gone to late night infomericals where they used to put content on all night (that was the initial attraction while trapped in the hospital bed – 4 AM is a TV wasteland). Boo! Hiss! Not even a return of the morphine drip would have made that crap last night watchable.

By: Buddha Is Laughing

Buddha Is Laughing — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:46:25 +0000

rofl

By: mespo727272

mespo727272 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:57:31 +0000

Steve & buddha:

Saying the History Channel is about history is like saying Fox News is about news.

By: Buddha Is Laughing

Buddha Is Laughing — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:36:30 +0000

Steve,

I’d like to point to The Science Channel and National Geographic as two channels still getting it right. Also the quality of programming on History Channel International is far superior to the flagship. You are oh so right about THC and TLC. Mostly crap. And still yet, despite the digital pretty, none of them beats a good old fashioned analog book and the beauty of a well maintained library. Preferably one with a good reference librarian.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:49:14 +0000

Surfing thru the cable “edutainment” channels, you see that the history channel is now all about ufos, ghosts,monsters. The learning channel is now all about the breeding follies of certain families.and the home channels are now all about the green.

By: KWillow

KWillow — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:40:15 +0000

That show truly sickens me, the gleeful, proud destruction of our pitiful remnants of once-vast forests. It is more of a sacrilege than any prank with any religious icon or book.

I’d like to see the History Channel devote a series to the usefulness of bamboo, hemp and other under utilized but easily replaceable resources.

By: LarryE

LarryE — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:31:50 +0000

I’m not sure how fair it is to go after the History Channel here. It was doing a series on logging and loggers. Do were really think it was the producers’ responsibility to be aware of all related environmental regulations before turning the cameras on? And what would you have preferred they do, know this was illegal and so not show it to protect the company?

Certainly, it was the lumber company’s responsibility to know the regulations, one it apparently failed to meet. (I think we can safely assume ignorance of the fact that what they were doing was illegal since it was so openly done and discussed in front of the cameras.) But was it the History Channel’s?

On another point, I agree that it’s regrettable that the History Channel doesn’t do more, well, history. Still, I see what it does now as an improvement over the early days when it got the nickname “all World War II, all the time.”

By: CCD

CCD — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:01:34 +0000

“We’re normal guys that do extraordinary things,” or
“We’re normal guys potentially committing environmental crimes.”
Either way their just normal guys.