sergei wrote:A person who can pretend to drink and wear his own piss on the head, with a straight face, and sell it as "documentary" is a douche.
Or running away from bear suited man...
David Attenborough on other hand is the man.
Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, etc are what men should be like.
What about the faked 'wild' horse?
If you watch the later series' it has a disclaimer saying that 'sometimes' situations are created in order to show what can be done. Where 'what can be done' = the best for ratings. i.e. jump off it, kill and eat it, or eat poos.
Also there was even a behind the scene's episode showing how they set up shots, how the safety guy hides ropes/rigging etc.
Survivor man is a less showy version. Dude pretty much gave up doing it after a while because he got sick of carrying all the camera gear, setting up a shot, walking allong then coming back for the gear.