I’m not sure if I agree with this or not, but it’s definitely an interesting read. I guess I tend to agree that the Discovery Channel is a little out of control. I was frustrated with some of this year’s Shark Week shows for their sensationalist nature. Where Discovery used to stand for science and truth, it now seems to often mean “making sharks look as scary as they do in Hollywood and setting them to equally creepy music, but saying they’re not so scary to cover our asses with the biology community.” That having been said, it’s really not possible to claim that Irwin was “risking his life” on his final dive. I mean, obviously he was risking his life (he died, after all), but he was reportedly being far, far less risky than we all are every day when we get in our cars. Stingrays are not “maneaters,” and thousands of people dive with them in the Great Barrier Reef (and many other places) every year. So, while Irwin definitely did do some crazy, risky things and that was probably encouraged by The Discovery Channel, you can’t say the day he died was one of these occasions.
http://www.calacanis.com/2006/09/04/the-discovery-channel-killed-steve-irwin/
001 // lauren // 09.26.2006 // 3:08 PM
steve has told me he wants this show to go on. and he wants the people to see his tragic death , he wants everyone to see the end of him , and to a new begining for people , he also says theres no point of him filming it if your not going to show it.Whatever would have happened it would of been shown anyway,he wants to thank for the flowers and says he will mourn his bindi and bob and terri so much . and his last words to me are Crikey crocs rule!