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Discovery Sues for False Claims
Thursday, March 8, 2007

I, for one, am sick of talking about "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" and have written what I hope will be my last big post about the matter, at least until some new major angle pops up. But this did make me smile: The Discovery channel has written a letter threatening to sue a Christian group in India for falsely claiming that it had pressured Discovery India from broadcasting the show. Suing for false claims a show that is about, at its heart, a false claim!! Who said irony is dead.

Labels: Biblical Archaeology

Posted by B Feiler at 8:23 AM
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Anonymous said...: A little humor to take the edge off all the drama. Although this parody is about another archeological drama documentary series, the sentiments that inspired it apply to "The Lost Tomb of Jesus".

RADICAL ARCHAEOLOGY TELEVISION PARODY
Location: Worldwide Length: 5 min.
This film is a parody of the very popular television series, Digging for the Truth, which is broadcast by the History Channel. The episode parodied is Mystery of the Anasazi. In this light-hearted commentary, Bradley Garrett and Adam Fish highlight certain superficial aspects of the television production and question its authenticity and authoritativeness. In the process of poking fun, they allude to issues of concern surrounding the presentation of archaeological knowledge through the style of modern day popular television.

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/; March 8, 2007 10:47:00 AM EST