Discovery Channel Disaster: Gold Rush Alaska

I just watched a couple of episodes of Discovery Channel's Gold Rush Alaska, and I can only assume the whole show is a hoax. The reasons why this show sucks are long (for one, it appears to be completely scripted and the cast doesn't seem to be actually looking for gold ) but a check of the Discovery Channel's forum shows that the consensus is that this show seriously sucks and is not the quality you would expect from TDC. In short, it's embarrassing.

Discovery is touting this as the highest rated TV show on Friday night. If that's true, I think it's because the audience is enjoying the view of The Discovery Channel going down in flames.

Rolling Stone becomes Tiger Beat

The last issue of Rolling Stone had the Jonas Brothers on the cover (looking very Greenday).

Tiger Beat magazine (which caters to pre-teen/early teenage girls) has also had them on the cover looking very Menudo (and is also running a special Jonas Brothers section on their website).

What does this mean? It means Rolling Stone has finally come clean that they're catering the Disney and Nickelodeon market.

So much for the "Rock & Roll" image they try to project. At least we now know where they stand (or kneel as the case may be).