New life in the balloon boy story

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

Speaking of prophecy...
Has anyone noticed how for some reason, The History Channel seems to get completely taken over by crackpots every weekend ? Instead of interesting history stuff, we get bombarded with UFO's, Bigfoot, Nostradamus prophecies, Conspiracy stuff, Knights Templar (pretty much focussing on the conspiracy theorist version of them instead of the actual historical data..), The Davinci Code, The Illuminati, etc...

I don't mind a documentary or so about this stuff once in a while, but ALL their shows on the weekend become that crap !!!
This ends my rant. I now return you to "The Balloon Boy Chronicles".

The irony is that 15-20 years ago when THC, TLC, A&E and Discovery were first being broadcast (you know, back before they went completely moonbat on us), people were predicting that these niche channels would be the end of public broadcasting. Seems hilarious now. At least I can still get decent science and history programming on PBS, although the pledge, beg and grovel drives are still a pain. THC on the other hand, has degenerated into The Hysteria Channel and the others aren't far behind. They're just playing to the lowest common denominator for ratings purposes at this point.