At a young age, I love PBS. I was more interested in shows with animals and scientific facts than cartoons then. And, of all the science programs, one was the cream of the crop: National Geographic. It came out once a month and was always interesting. I loved every minute of them and saved my money to buy them when I could.
Now, Fast forward to today.
I decided to watch a few shows on the "National Geographic Channel." I assumed that this channel existed to show all of the amazing programming that National Geographic had to offer. Well, my first clue to the down fall of the magazine gone program was that its name was now "Nat Geo." As if National Geographic was too difficult to remember or say. I brushed this off as I started watching a show on the Colossal Squid, the largest variety of squid in the world. I was very disappointed.
The show was about a team who were trying to dissect one of the most intact specimens of Squid that they had ever come across. In stead of being about facts and the squid, the show was mostly about the drama that came around the squid. Very little information was given and mostly the show kept zooming in and out of peoples faces and the narrator would say something like "tensions rise over the squid not defrosting fast enough."
I knew what had happened and ever since, ever time I try to watch a show on that net work, the same thing pops up. National Geographic as I knew it, is dead. What is in its place now is Drama.
Network executives see that TV stations like MTV are making a lot of money showing shows that are all about drama. They want some of that money, so they copy it, only with squids instead of dramatic rich people. Its very disappointing and for at least one viewer, National Geographic as it used to be is dead.
In its place is "Nat Geo." A watered down, drama filled, fact-less, boring mess.
