Thursday, March 8, 2007

Beautiful Words You Wouldn't Expect to Hear from a Cable Broadcaster

"It's not necessarily about making money, or making ratings, or shouting from the highest office building. Sometimes having some maturity and perspective is more important than getting picked up in all the ratings highlights."

With respectful skepticism, I do salute the Discovery Channel and its Executive VP of corporate communications, David Leavy for acknowledging their shark-jump.

Not to quibble with the tvweek.com article, but it's not accurate to report that Christian groups "criticized it for conflicting with the New Testament." Like all the critical coverage, Christian groups pointed out concerns about the documentarians' methodology. The methods that were criticized were (as Jay Cost wrote), essentially, "Evidence that favors the theory is included. The rest is excluded."

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