Burms spread the swine flu....

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Originally Posted by RebelYell83

if i read it right,theyy just used the swine as an example,,but to be honest,southest asia can be a hot bed of diseases,,i think this was bad timing on the article,,but i dont see lies in it

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sure they said like. but to a person who hates snakes and is worried about the "python invasion" it reads they SPREAD IT!!

regaurdless of what it actually says, it is damaging to our hobby right now.

I normally like watching the Discovry channel but...Why would they spread this when they are suppposed to be an educational channel? Why dont they have their facts straight?

The author of the piece is intentionally capitalizing on two different lines of currently popular hype in order to sell the article. Journalistic standards seem to be a thing of the past where the only important criteria is whether or not you can sensationalize an article enough to sell it.

I used to really like the Discovery channel, but they've been going the way of so many other Cable channels where they seem to be dumbing it down in order to reach the widest possible audience. Animal Planet went that way a long time ago, and others like Discovery, the History channel (what I've been referring to lately as the Hysteria Channel) and even the National Geographic channel seem to be in a race to the bottom trying to pick up more market share by appealing to the lowest common denominator. I guess you just can't put on decent programming and make a profit at the same time.

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Originally Posted by Chris Rossi

I normally like watching the Discovry channel but...Why would they spread this when they are supposed to be an educational channel? Why dont they have their facts straight?

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Because the government owns the discovery channel. And the government does what ever they want including lying... do you actually believe what you see on TV because its on a certain channel.