Comments on: Global: The push to boycott Shark Week http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/22/global-the-push-to-boycott-shark-week/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:58:09 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shark Week owner http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/22/global-the-push-to-boycott-shark-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1617694 Shark Week owner Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:50:10 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=86581#comment-1617694 As a young adult I've watched DC's Shark Week for about the past five years now. As a person interested in sharks this week is an easy way to learn facts and interesting stories, and although I do have a slight fear of sharks that does not stop me from highly respecting them and caring for their plight. Discovery does like to show a bit of gore with Shark Week, but that only attracts more viewers, and as a fanatic Shark Week person I will voice the opinion that that isn't a bad thing. I would love to see more 'episodes' of the Shark Week going over Shark conservation and acts being taken to protect the many species. However I must defend DC by saying that overall DC shows the relationship between man and shark as one of caution, not fear and how steps must be taken to understand and protect the many species of this animal. As a young adult I’ve watched DC’s Shark Week for about the past five years now. As a person interested in sharks this week is an easy way to learn facts and interesting stories, and although I do have a slight fear of sharks that does not stop me from highly respecting them and caring for their plight. Discovery does like to show a bit of gore with Shark Week, but that only attracts more viewers, and as a fanatic Shark Week person I will voice the opinion that that isn’t a bad thing. I would love to see more ‘episodes’ of the Shark Week going over Shark conservation and acts being taken to protect the many species. However I must defend DC by saying that overall DC shows the relationship between man and shark as one of caution, not fear and how steps must be taken to understand and protect the many species of this animal.

]]> By: Robert Kenny http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/22/global-the-push-to-boycott-shark-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1574937 Robert Kenny Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:57:35 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=86581#comment-1574937 I still haven't seen any practical arguments or facts to support this anti-shark week position. In the many years that I have watched DC shark week I have never seen sharks presented as anything more than the natural instinct predators that they are. While DC is being accused of sensationalizing shark blood and gore for money it seems from the note above that the tourist industry wants to minimalize it for the same reasons. Even after watching blood and gore 2008 shark week our family still took a bahama cruise and swam at a variety of island beaches and we still swim in the gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast. Give some facts; ie How much has the ocean beach tourist industry declined because of misrepresented facts from DC Shark Week? What facts have been misrepresented by DC (ie Shark finning isn't really a problem? Tiger, Bull, or Great White shark bites aren't as nasty as portrayed). Just because you would like sharks to be portrayed as safe, benign household pets it does not make it so. I still haven’t seen any practical arguments or facts to support this anti-shark week position. In the many years that I have watched DC shark week I have never seen sharks presented as anything more than the natural instinct predators that they are. While DC is being accused of sensationalizing shark blood and gore for money it seems from the note above that the tourist industry wants to minimalize it for the same reasons. Even after watching blood and gore 2008 shark week our family still took a bahama cruise and swam at a variety of island beaches and we still swim in the gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast. Give some facts; ie How much has the ocean beach tourist industry declined because of misrepresented facts from DC Shark Week? What facts have been misrepresented by DC (ie Shark finning isn’t really a problem? Tiger, Bull, or Great White shark bites aren’t as nasty as portrayed). Just because you would like sharks to be portrayed as safe, benign household pets it does not make it so.

]]> By: Shark Week Cometh… « Yiddish for "Blog" http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/22/global-the-push-to-boycott-shark-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1574600 Shark Week Cometh… « Yiddish for "Blog" Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:47:34 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=86581#comment-1574600 [...] [Global Voices blog post here.] [...] [...] [Global Voices blog post here.] [...]

]]> By: Finola Prescott http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/22/global-the-push-to-boycott-shark-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1573796 Finola Prescott Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:29:00 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=86581#comment-1573796 It only took me one part of one season to hate the Discovery Channel's Shark week - and that's even before knowing what I have more recently learnt about the value of sharks and their truer natures. It makes we question the validity of the entire programming of the network - guess that doesn't really matter unless viewers stop watching. It only took me one part of one season to hate the Discovery Channel’s Shark week – and that’s even before knowing what I have more recently learnt about the value of sharks and their truer natures.

It makes we question the validity of the entire programming of the network – guess that doesn’t really matter unless viewers stop watching.

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