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democrat2thecore

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14. I agree with your sentiments, but to be fair...

Reply to longship (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 4, 2014, 10:55 PM

Feb 2014

Fox (or their other tentacles) own none of those former "educational" channels you mentioned. Two are owned by A&E Networks, which is a Disney/ABC/Hearst company. The other, Discovery, is owned by Discovery Networks which is largely held by the Newhouse media family.

But, again, your sentiments are spot-on. I have to laugh at some of the mindless "history" on the "History Channel."

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"What you observe is a great wasteland." [View all] longship Jan 2014 OP

And that view was optimistic. RC Jan 2014 #1

Daily Show/Colbert tazkcmo Jan 2014 #2

I deliberately posted this without comment. longship Jan 2014 #4

What you stated, longship, these are the reasons I stopped watching a long time ago. sheshe2 Jan 2014 #8

I would have disagreed with that in the early 70's longship Jan 2014 #9

I agree with your sentiments, but to be fair... democrat2thecore Feb 2014 #14

Of course now the station never signs off. Ron Green Jan 2014 #3

Since when was it in the people's interest to make them ignorant? longship Jan 2014 #5

Yup! Especially when it gets to be owned by a very few big players. longship Jan 2014 #6

Today's television offerings are totally understandable ... Scuba Jan 2014 #7

+1 El_Johns Jan 2014 #11

To be fair to the medium, there has been some amazing television in the last 10 years XemaSab Jan 2014 #10

It would be golden if it were used correctly. Boomerproud Jan 2014 #12

I have a problem with the concept of being sunk... longship Jan 2014 #13