Just this week, on my hiking blog, I lambasted Discovery Channel for one of their TV shows called Man Vs. Wild. (The publicist actually emailed me, disappointed.)
Today I’m singing their praises for a special called Discovery Channel :: Discovery Atlas :: China :: Meet the People.
Recommended to me by Jennifer Isbister, this Discovery Channel program is excellent.
As with most of the pre-Olympics media coverage, the documentary includes a gymnast.
But rather than take a cliche story line — young Chinese girl robbed of childhood by Godless Communists, for example — this is an astonishingly balanced bit of editing.
Though Jin Yang has a disastrous competition in her first major National meet, her life is not ruined. I highly recommend the TV show.
(I cannot find it on-line. You may have to look for it on that old-fashioned television of yours.) Kecks notes that segments are posted on YouTube.
Click PLAY or watch the trailer on YouTube.
More information on Discovery Channel.
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