Do they think I'm an idiot?

I watched "The Link" on History Channel tonight and thought it was a remarkable show. I really liked how they tied the bones to our modern line of anthropoids. If the fossil is indeed real and not a hoax than they might have something here. I am only slightly suspicious because it just looks too well preserved.

But their explanation of why it is in such good shape is plausible.

Anyway, the show was fascinating all the same. One of the scientists they interviewed kind of ticked me off when he called Darwin's Evolutionary Theory law by comparing it to the same fact that gravity is a law. Sorry dude, but evolution is still only a theory. If you are going to establish it as a law than that is more earth shattering than the discovery of the fossil Ida!

But, even this is not my gripe, thus the title of this blog entry. The show was pegged to run from 8:00PM to 10:00PM CT, but it actually ended at 9:37PM and they filled the remainder of the time slot up with sneak peaks at some of their summer reality shows. I switched over to something else immediately.

Do the folks at the History Channel really think that by deceptively plying their bogus shows into the time slot for what I thought would be two hours of Ida would peek my interest and get me to watch their reality shows when they air later?

I have no intention of watching their reality shows. I cannot stand reality TV. To me it is just more proof of how dumbed down America has become. They hark back to the Freak Shows of the old traveling circuses.

Now, obviously, the History Channel hires idiots to do their programming. If they really wanted to force people to sit through the sneak peaks then they should have run them during the program not after. Running them after gave viewers such as myself the opportunity to flip over to another channel without fear of missing any of the scheduled program.

I guess what I really should be doing is thanking the History Channel, but on this point it's more fun to criticize them.