Drugs, Death, Neglect: Behind the Scenes at Animal Planet

[Pythonfriend]

To start, I don't agree with mistreatment of animals in the slightest

However, a lying media organization twists the facts surrounding animal treatment, and we trust another media outlet to honestly report the facts surrounding this??

Sounds kinda ironic to me….

not all journalists are real journalists, some are fakes and just make stuff up and merely create the impression of being knowledgeable.

its not ironic at all. animal planet are known to misrepresent stuff for profit. mother jones is known for good professional journalism. different track records, different reputations. there is a difference between someone like Glenn Beck, and someone like Glenn Greenwald. some make it a habit to spread lies, some make it a habit to report the truth. some are known for good research skills, some are known to cut corners.

no irony at all. journalists are not all the same, to my knowledge animal planet does not even have any real journalists, they have writers and filmmakers. excellent journalism does exist.

EDIT: maybe you could argue that a professional journalistic media outlet like mother jones would not like to rip another media outlet that has a similar good reputation a new one. but i can tell you that outlets of high journalistic quality will see nothing in common between themselves and something like animal planet, and will be perfectly fine with shredding animal planets to bits, if the actual facts allow it.