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Re: [BRHSlist] Re: History Channel -" Railroads"--( Disgraceful)

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Re: History Channel -" Railroads"--( Disgraceful)
From: "Jan Kohl" <jkohl@nc.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 23:22:07 -0400
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> There was some nice footage in there if only they had identified the road
> and location.  Unfortunately very little of it matched the subject
> railroad or route being talked about.

Actually, my comment is, "you're surprised it was so horrible?"  

The History channel, Discovery, TLC, PBS and others are not in the business of 
"expert analysis".  Consider their audience.  Their audience is not people like 
many of us, who have detailed books, videos and websites that cater to us.  No, 
we don't pay their bills. 

John. Q. Public pays their bills.  And JQP is going to get a nice, tidy 1 hour 
documentary that has some good 'generalized' information, know a bit more about 
a neat topic and feel very happy.  

Now some of the documentaries are better than others, and they do put *some* 
detailed information in them, but how much can you jam into a 1-2 hour railroad 
documentary?  Many of us could do a complete hour on a single subject 
pertaining to a single railroad.

I'm certainly not an expert on railroads as many of you are, but as an 
ex-member of the USAF, I can tell you that the aircraft documentaries are about 
the same (although probably a bit better, as they usually do one show per 
aircraft)...

Narrator: "The Phantom was highly successful in Vietnam in an air-to-ground 
role"  (Meanwhile video clip shows a pre-production Phantom firing an 
air-to-air Sparrow missle).

See, just support those authors and rr vid makers...THEY are the ones who you 
can really complain about if they put out the wrong info!  :)

Cheers!
 
 
       »»  Jan Kohl  ««
::: computer security consultant :::
 
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