@SpunkyTWS wrote:
Maybe I've made a mistake in not watching any of these shows on the Discovery channel. When I see something about "real live mermaids found" I assume it's the television version of clickbait, and that if I watched it the reality would be be much more mundane. Actually a program on the history of mermaid folklore, which, on Nelson's scale, would fall kind of in the middle as long as it was emphasized that there's no evidence of fish people, would be interesting and instructive.
If they're at the "just making stuff up" at the end of the spectrum, though, I'd say that's a problem no matter how much money it makes.