I would like to know this too.
Why do their animal documentaries tend to leave out reproduction and concentrate instead on violence? Why do their science/technology documentaries spend so long repeating the same 5 or 6 simple facts over and over? And why do they spend so long talking about corn?
Seriously I've never watched a corn documentary, but I've seen a dozen American documentaries where they spend 5-10 minutes discussing corn. Why is this?
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Wed 28 Jul 2021, 14:23,
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They are pretty obsessed with corn.
I honestly dunno why. Corn is mostly shit.
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Corn is a huge agricultural lobbying force in the US.
Spend a few minutes talking about corn and they probably give you money.
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Oh yes, the mighty corn lobby.
There was one documentary I watched on the settlement of the Americas by the Europeans, which did not mention the puritans at all, claimed that settlers were escaping a Europe-wide overcrowding crisis(?!?!?!?), and discussed native Americans only in terms of their relationship to corn.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Wed 28 Jul 2021, 16:23,
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I guess religious extremism and subsequent genocide are tough subjects.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 28 Jul 2021, 20:08,
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leave out reproduction - at a guess religious lobby
concentrate on violence - attracts/draws in the audience
repeating same facts - assumption that their audience watches so long before changing channel
corn - because its amaizeing
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