National Geographic Trashes Its Brand with Bush ‘Infomercial’ on 9/11

[babsbunny]

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2011/08/30/national-geographic-trashes-its-brand-with-bush-infomercial-on-911/

On “Countdown” last night, Keith Olbermann and Markos Moulistsas rightly savaged the National Geographic Channel for producing a Fox News style interview with George Bush on the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Olbermann noted that while Bush refers to 9/11 as a “monumental” and “significant” event but he never uses word like “tragic” or “sad.” Moulitsas suggested that the reason Bush did not describe the attacks as “tragic” is because he and his party did not view the attack as a tragedy but rather as an opportunity to install a more authoritarian regime inside the government.

The Bush interview and the release of Dick Cheney’s memoir were strategically timed to come out around the tenth anniversary of the terror attacks next month.

[Botany]

1. FYI Fox News owns the National Geographic Channel

n/t

[Lucky Luciano]

7. Yep. nt

[spanone]

2. k&r....

[malaise]

3. It was a horrible interview if we could call it that

Infomercial is correct.

[GReedDiamond]

6. Mis-infomercial would be more accurate, IMO...nt

[malaise]

9. You win

:fistbump: :D

[Octafish]

4. NG's been shooting down 9-11 conspiracy talk since its first special.

I don't recall a single National Geographic program mentioning the FBI snuffing out Colleen Rowley's investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui in Minnesota or of the CIA "failing" to inform FBI of the presence of two terrorists in San Diego.

[Botany]

5. or that Marvin Bush's company was in charge of ...

.... security at the WTC, United Airlines, and Dulles Airport and that Bertha Champagne, who worked @
Marvin Bush's house car rolled back and crushed her to death just days after 9/11.

[Hugabear]

8. National Geographic Channel is becoming about as useless as the History Channel

Guess it won't be long before NG is overrun with shows about the Bible Code, Nostradamus, ancient aliens, Nazi occult, etc.

[Botany]

10. The History Channel used to put on some outstanding ....

.... shows.



I know I am a geek but Simon Schama's History of Britain was outstanding ...... now the History Channel
is "dumb asses having interpersonal problems in the swamp."

[jwhitesj]

11. I agree

It's really sad that they reduced themselves to the lowest common denominator. They have alienated their core demographic with the crap they put on their now. TLC and the Discovery channel have done the same thing. Science Channel is the only channel I can still watch from those networks regularly.

[Supersedeas]

12. the cable channel is a far cry from the periodical