[78-L] History Detectives Monday June 22 9:00 pm est

[Donna Halper]

At 03:52 PM 6/17/2009, you wrote:

>Having been on HD myself a couple years ago, I think the real problem is
>simply that their resident experts come into the program with their own
>pet theories and beliefs about particular topics already in place

Amen.  That's what happened to me in 2001 when I was an "expert" on 
the History Channel's show about car radios.  They wanted me to say 
Motorola was the first, and when I showed them evidence that it was 
not, that wasn't what they wanted to hear about.  Motorola had 
evidently sponsored a lot of the research the show used, so they 
wanted and expected pundits to support Motorola's version of history.