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Anonymous
Watching AnimalPlanet today; naturally, it's an all-day Tribute To Our Dead Meal Ticket with endless Irwin specials. The one I just surfed through happened to be discussing the "babybait" issue; Irwin's wife was bawling that this great media conspiracy was out to personally demonize her (*eye roll*...who the hell are you, again, lady?), while FAR more respectable naturalist Ruud (from "Buggin' With Ruud") was uncomfortably trying to play it both ways (paraphrasing: "I don't feel the baby was in any danger--now that it's over--but it's not the sort of thing I would've done--because I have a frontal lobe."). PR management > a child's welfare, I guess.
I don't remember Marlon Perkins or Jacques Costeau engaging in bearbaiting to pull in viewers or help wildlife, but today we have Jeff Corwin roughly manhandling animals that clearly just want to be left the hell alone. When it's HIS turn to get what's coming to him, I'll laugh long and hard.
Irwin? AnimalPlanet has real heroes, and they're on shows like "Animal Cops" and "Growing Up." They're the ones doing the good work for the sake of doing the good work, not doing the good work for the sake of Look At Me.
They can always use donations, too. Self-righteous offense is cheap. If these people are really your heroes, support them in a MEANINGFUL way.
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