Huff Post Would Rather Be Dead Than Red In The Head

The liberal Huffington Post is repulsed by this LA Times story that appeared over the weekend.  How can Discovery Communications which owns TLC swallow a show where the protagonist kills animals and ends the lives of helpless fishies?  Discovery is the home of environmentalist-friendly shows like 'Animal Planet.'

This isn't the first time Huff Post's harped on TLC and reality show producer Mark Burnett for signing on to 'Sarah Palin's Alaska.'  The Huffies nearly had a coronaries when the deal was announced.

TLC president Eileen O'Neill opined to LAT's Scott Collins that her cable network is 'less snarky, edgy' than rival Bravo (owned by NBC). 

Collins: In TLC's hands, "heartland" has not necessarily been code, as it is so often in the TV industry, for "downmarket." For the first quarter of this year, viewers' median income ($53,000) was almost comparable to Bravo's ($58,000), according to the Nielsen Co. Median age was 42, only slightly older than Bravo's 40. The network averaged 1.1 million prime-time viewers, up 10% compared with the same period a year ago — and that was mostly without the benefit of Gosselin-mania.

For the week ending June 6, TLC outrated Bravo, even among the ad-friendly demographic of viewers ages 18 to 49 (643,000 to 510,000). Among all viewers, TLC ranked 10th among cable networks, behind USA, Discovery and Fox News.

On TLC, viewers get Kate Gosselin and Sarah Palin.

"They're pretty fearless women who pick paths in their lives and follow them," O'Neill said of Gosselin and Palin. "Not everyone agrees with all their choices or even some of their remarks, but we think both of them make a lot of sense for TLC as strong, compelling characters."

On NBC's Bravo, viewers get narcissistic, vapid, social X-ray "real" housewives franchise spinoffs permeating the cable TV landscape.  The White House state dinner-crashing social whores and bores Michaele and Tareq Salahi overtake the latest Bravo show rolling over America August 5th like the 1950s horror movie "The Blob."

Who would you rather watch?  TLC's 'fearless' Sarah Palin or Bravo's empty vessel Michaele Salahi?