{"id":526,"date":"2007-12-24T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T21:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/24\/this-is-not-history\/"},"modified":"2007-12-24T11:55:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T21:55:59","slug":"this-is-not-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/24\/this-is-not-history\/","title":{"rendered":"This is not History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year when <em>Easter<\/em> or <em>Christmas<\/em> rolls around, the documentary channels up in the 70&#8217;s run all these &#8220;History of [insert Biblical name here]&#8221; or &#8220;The Science of [insert Biblical occurrence here]&#8221; programs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This isn&#8217;t HISTORY &#8211; it is DOGMA.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong>Having these kinds of programs on seemingly &#8220;objective&#8221;, &#8220;scientific&#8221; networks lends credence to the assertion that the people or events involved are factual.\u00c2\u00a0 This is brainwashing through habituation.<\/p>\n<p>I ran into these on both the <em>National Geographic Channel<\/em> and <em>The History Channel<\/em> this weekend. Give us natural history documenaries and war documentaries (respectively), not Christian demagogue!<\/p>\n<p>FTP!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year when Easter or Christmas rolls around, the documentary channels up in the 70&#8217;s run all these &#8220;History of [insert Biblical name here]&#8221; or &#8220;The Science of [insert Biblical occurrence here]&#8221; programs. This isn&#8217;t HISTORY &#8211; it is DOGMA.\u00c2\u00a0 Having these kinds of programs on seemingly &#8220;objective&#8221;, &#8220;scientific&#8221; networks lends credence to the assertion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[12],"tags":[31],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-8u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}