I just finished watching Targeting Bin Laden on the History Channel. For anyone in farther-west time zones than Philadelphia, PA, PLEASE, don't waste another minute reading this, go watch it.
It is fascinating, detailed, thoughtful, thorough and honorable... but one point is profoundly disturbing: Why ISN'T this documentary playing on every major network on the television tonight?
Why did I only stumble upon it by a lucky happenstance of channel surfing?
Maybe the answer is that I read more than I watch TV? Maybe I was caught up with my daughter's last week of summer vacation and the new school year which started today for her? Maybe it's because I have only allowed a single television to invade our home, and it's not allowed out of the basement, and only carries the Comcast's "economy" package cable connection? Maybe I was just really preoccupied with hurricanes and mold for the least week? Maybe the stinky wet mold has already rotted my brain?
OMG! I must be a Basement-Mold Zombie.
Because I was actually aware, through NO desire on my part to be made aware, that not one but TWO idiot reality shows (that drunkSnookie girl and some Housewife who's husband killed himself recently) are on this week - and I HAVE NO DESIRE TO KNOW EITHER OF THESE THINGS.
Yet, a detailed documentary account - arrated in parts by a sitting President of the United States - of one of the most important military actions of the nation's history... gets such poor buzz that I was only LUCKY to stumble across it? REALLY? At the very least, this seems sickenly disrespectful to both the President, to Navy Seal Team 6, and to all of us who finally felt a sense of closure, upon hearing they'd taken Bin Laden out. And, after watching the show, the fact that Bin Laden had been planning new nation-wide attacks on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 to celebrate the original attack...? How is this NOT a program that is playing on multiple networks at once? How is it that, being on ONE network, a network I watch frequently no less - I never knew it was on until I was watching it?
Kossacks, please tell me, am I just this far out of the mainstream loop, with my silly book-reading and family time? Did this show get the appropriate pre-attention that it deserved? Or has the mold already eaten my brain away and I'm too much of a zombie to know it?