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<blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4803107" data-attributes="member: 49613">The problem with History Channel first becomes evident when you watch a show about something you've studied. After that, you realize that you can't trust anything you've ever seen on any History Channel program, because if you didn't already know about the subject being presented, you have no way of knowing what was true and what was utter codswallop.Case in point, a show about WWII. &quot;German tanks roared across the border...&quot;, and they show footage of Russian tanks.When you know about what is being shown, you'll find that a large percentage of what is said on a History Channel show is either extremely misleading or outright false. So if I didn't know about (for example) Alexander the Great, why would I watch their show about him? Half of what they said would be wrong, and I would go from ignorance about the person to the much worse state of fallacious opinion about the person. At least if I were wholly ignorant I wouldn't think that I knew something about him. Whereas the History Channel would possibly show him riding around on a late Seleucid war elephant fighting Mamluks with a Swiss halberd. Scratch that: with two Swiss halberds.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Korgoth, post: 4803107, member: 49613"] The problem with History Channel first becomes evident when you watch a show about something you've studied. After that, you realize that you can't trust anything you've ever seen on any History Channel program, because if you didn't already know about the subject being presented, you have no way of knowing what was true and what was utter codswallop. Case in point, a show about WWII. "German tanks roared across the border...", and they show footage of [i]Russian[/i] tanks. When you know about what is being shown, you'll find that a large percentage of what is said on a History Channel show is either extremely misleading or outright false. So if I didn't know about (for example) Alexander the Great, why would I watch their show about him? Half of what they said would be wrong, and I would go from ignorance about the person to the much worse state of fallacious opinion about the person. At least if I were wholly ignorant I wouldn't think that I knew something about him. Whereas the History Channel would possibly show him riding around on a late Seleucid war elephant fighting Mamluks with a Swiss halberd. Scratch that: with [i]two[/i] Swiss halberds. [/QUOTE]

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