So-called 'researchers' are being mocked on social media for accusing Discovery's 'Shark Week' series of lacking diversity and over-representing 'white men' named Mike.
But one day, Whitenack apparently honed in on the reality that most of the scientists on“I didn’t see very many people that looked like me on television,” Whitenack lamented.
was giving its audience the wrong messages about sharks, and what type of people were studying the sharks on the show.claiming that Discovery’s programming has emphasized negative messages about sharks, lacked useful messaging about shark conservation, and overwhelmingly featured white males as the experts on sharks.
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