We are proud shark fans. We watch #sharkweek because we can’t resist. But we deserve better #SaveSharkWeek pic.twitter.com/4wgaF7VzEn
— Upwell (@upwell)July 22, 2014
I actually refuse to watch Shark Week. Haven’t done so for… well… over a decade actually.
When I was growing up, Shark Week was about proper documentaries from the likes of Ron and Valerie Taylor or actual Marine Biologists before the likes of Steve Irwin or Nigel Marven popularised the excitable gung-ho cowboy approach to animals where people spend more time whooping and shouting than they do research.
Discovery Channel and many of its Shark ‘documentaries’ now actually embrace the sensationalism that made Jaws such a success story.
Shark Week is not about education. It hasn’t been for a very very long time.
It’s about ratings.
It is the summer blockbuster for Discovery Channel that Jaws was for Universal nearly 40 years ago.
(via thesharkives)
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