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Audience Perceptions of Fringe History TV

1/2/2014

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Can you imagine more depressing news than the apparent fact, reported in this profile of the program’s technical wizard, that America Unearthed has 26 episodes this season? That’s a full six months of it, roughly twice what Ancient Aliens averages. No wonder the shows are getting slower: They need to stretch material to fill the episode order. According to the article, they shot all 26 episodes over the summer, so you can be sure quality must be high churning out product at that rate.

One of the frequent arguments I’ve encountered in discussing fringe history is that the subject is entertainment, that it doesn’t have a real impact on audience beliefs, and that it simply opens the mind to possibilities. As much as I’d like to believe this, it also grossly overestimates the critical capacity of the average television viewer. Scientific research into audience perceptions has repeatedly found that audiences have a limited attention span and a limited ability to critically engage with topics, especially those outside their own personal or professional experiences.

In communication research, two primary schools of thought have dominated understanding of audience interaction with media. The first, that advocated by defenders of fringe history, is the “active audience model,” which postulates a rational and discerning audience that is largely immune to influence from media messages. The opposing school of thought is the “passive audience model,” which supposes that the audience is conformist, gullible, and susceptible to influence from media messages. Advertisers bank their existence on this latter model.

The two models are in tension since aspects of both reflect the real world: The audience actively chooses which media to consume, but within the media they choose to consume, they tend to be overly credulous about and susceptible to the messages that they receive. Thus, a media product becomes a kind of dance between the audience and the communicator, in which the communicator uses subtle cues to clue in the audience that certain messages are more important than others, while the audience fluctuates between active engagement and passive absorption of media messages, depending on comprehension and levels of interest.

An older article by Frank A. Biocca that discusses the history of the two models and efforts to synthesize them can be found here.

To this rather theoretical background we must add the appalling historical ignorance of most members of the TV-viewing audience. Recent surveys have found appalling results: Less than half of Americans can identify Herbert Hoover or Thomas Jefferson as former presidents, for example, and less than half of American high school seniors demonstrated even a basic understanding of history.

In Britain there was a flap in 2008 when a poll suggested that students weren’t sure whether Winston Churchill or Sherlock Holmes were real or fictional, and most Britons admitted to not reading history and to actively switching off documentaries in favor or entertainment. Although the poll was later challenged because it was conducted by a television channel, UKTV Gold, the network’s head explained that he saw the results as confirmation that media messages about “heroic” figures through the medium of entertainment play an important role in shaping public views about history.

Therefore it is unsurprising that we find that TV viewers easily mistake America Unearthed for a serious treatment of history and a legitimate investigation of historical claims. How else to explain the reaction of Jennifer N. Adams, a 34-year-old single mother who blogs about raising a daughter with autism? Adams is—and I am not making this up—currently studying anthropology with a major in archaeology and a minor in history. Even with this background, Adams’s views were easily swayed by the appearance of America Unearthed on a History-branded channel:

I love watching the History channel. Some of the shows on there always catch my attention, especially when it comes to talking about historical items in the museum, archeology, or historical exploration.

Adams does not distinguish between History and/or H2’s “serious” history shows and “entertainment.” Instead, after she started watching America Unearthed, she simply accepted its conclusions as a scientific investigation overturning outdated paradigms, particularly about pre-Columbian visitors to the United States:

These groups of people or societies are [not] known to have lived there, so history says, but with the evidence that’s being found today and the evidence that’s been looked at again from the past, says otherwise. Such as the Mayan’s built temples in Georgia, Egyptian tribes once lived in Oklahoma, the Knights Templar roaming in the Nevada desert. All of these groups of people past history says is inaccurate, but evidence being brought forth shows otherwise.

The show is primarily based on correcting the history that we’ve been taught in school. Scott Wolter travels all over America, even across Europe trying to put an answer to some of the items that are brought to his attention.

And this from an audience member actually studying history and archaeology! Jennifer also says that she turned in a paper for her sociology class’s religion in society assignment inspired by the Celtic sun worshippers of Oklahoma she saw on America Unearthed!

[Note: Jennifer N. Adams contacted me after this post was published (see comments below) to inform me that her comments above were not meant as an endorsement of America Unearthed and that she disagrees with many of Scott Wolter's conclusions.]

It reminds me of the anthropology students with whom I went to college who believed in Atlantis, ancient astronauts, and other evidence-free claims, as did somewhere between one-third and one-half of college students of my era, according to surveys conducted by archaeologist Ked Feder in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s.

On the other hand, experts with more experience in the field can see through fringe history easily. Professional archaeologist and rock art specialist Peter Faris awarded Scott Wolter his annual tongue-in-cheek Certifiable Rock Art Prevarication (CRAP) award for misuse of Native American rock art to support a Lost Tribes of Israel theory. In so doing, Faris took aim at Wolter’s “humble-brag” about being compared to Indian Jones:

I knew I was in for a good show when Wolter compared himself with “Indiana Jones.” I don’t want you to think that I totally reject everything Wolter says on America Unearthed. I can be fair and I couldn’t agree with him more about this comparison. Both he and Indiana Jones are pretense, running around through fictional situations in made-up sequences that pretend to be based upon archaeology. I think that they are very comparable.

Meanwhile, I’m still working on assembling material for my source book of “ancient texts” used by fringe history types. Below is a downloadable spreadsheet of what I have so far. If you have any suggestions about additional texts to add, I’m happy to hear them.

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45 Comments
Only Me
1/2/2014 06:30:16 am

Perhaps all is not lost. Roughly a year ago, during and after AU's first season, it had a rating of 5.4 (maybe higher) out of 10 at IMDB.com. Now, it's current rating is 5 out of 10. Some of the threads on its message board are reflecting disappointment in this season's quality.

I'm thinking the decision to jam-pack so many episodes into this season may come back to haunt them.

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Discovery of America
1/2/2014 09:24:12 am

Mr & Mrs Average, working all day and struggling to make ends meet cannot differentiate between gullibility and scepticism

Don't be too harsh on Mr & Mrs Average because the same thing applies to the cops

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Dan Brown
1/2/2014 09:28:02 am

Hey, I like Judges - during The Da Vinci Code trial Justice Peter Smith referred to the mystery of The Priory of Sion and Rennes-le-Chateau positively

Ghost of Michael Baigent
1/2/2014 09:29:32 am

I hate Dan Brown, he cost me my mansion in Winchester

Ghost of Richard Leigh
1/2/2014 09:30:33 am

There's a difference between proof and evidence

Ghost of Pierre Plantard
1/2/2014 09:31:44 am

I didn't make a cent out of my scam

Ghost of Gerard de Sede
1/2/2014 09:33:35 am

Yes Pierre, you were taken advantage of by the authors of The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code.

Ghost of Berenger Sauniére
1/3/2014 06:09:23 am

Too bad for you suckers, I made money off MY scam!

Matt Mc
1/2/2014 07:07:12 am

I am waiting for Wolter to complain about a conspiracy that prevents him from investigating Oak Island (he did talk about it last year). I cant wait to hear him say that he is unable to film there because History Channel is not letting him because they have another show about it. :)

Seriously, 26 episodes seems like a lot but I bet it is divided in two 13 episode sub season like most shows now.

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Jason Colavito link
1/2/2014 07:11:13 am

I sincerely hope that the 26 episodes the article said were season 2 are actually seasons 2 and 3, though Wolter has said season 3 won't film until later this spring.

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Matt Mc
1/2/2014 07:28:31 am

That could very well be, since now it is standard to do two seasons a year. But the article made it seem like the shows were in the can already which is not uncommon. Normally when I work on the ID discovery shows I am contracted to when do 13 1/2 hour episodes for each delivery. Every now and then we have to re-edit a show based on new facts or Discovery requests but that is rare. When we ship them out for delivery to Discovery (the production house is Siren media) they are sent out for DVD and Blu Ray mastering at the same time.

Matt Mc
1/2/2014 07:30:45 am

Also have you caught Unexplained Files yet? I caught the end of it the other day and was surprised to see skeptics on the show. Based on the one segment I saw I was hopeful that someone is doing a show that contains both the speculation and fact.

Aaron Adair link
1/2/2014 07:15:11 am

That's an excellent list of ancient texts to include, and it has just about everything I can think of that should be included. Well, save one thing, but then again I'm a bit biased towards its inclusion: the UFO Star of Bethlehem :)

Of course ,when you're gone, I can think of a good sequel book: ancient artifacts alleged to prove fringe theory X. Then again, that would require pictures, and you have already shown what a hassle it is to get past copyright issues. Still, may be worth adding to a future to-do list.

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Jason Colavito link
1/2/2014 09:48:35 am

Thanks! I've been going back and forth on how much biblical material to put in. It seems that almost half of all fringe material is Bible or Bible-adjacent, and I don't want the book to read like the Gospel according to ET. If I fairly represented fringe thinking, it would probably turn into "World's Weirdest Bible Excerpts," but it wouldn't be very interesting to readers.

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Aaron Adair link
1/2/2014 01:18:13 pm

From what I saw, there was a really good mix of Bible and non-Bible stuff. I count seven Bible passages, but there were also plenty of other ancient, non-canonical works and biblical commentaries, so I understand. But think of it this way: somehow you managed not to use any Bible passage for Jesus bloodlines or End-of-the-World stuff. Balanced achieved.

Oh, and one other note on Jesus surviving crucifixion: there are passages from the Quran to that effect, so perhaps it's worth including those. It also talks of raising Jesus up to heaven, so UFOs and Jesus bloodline conspiracies? If it doesn't exist, I'm starting it now!

Varika
1/2/2014 01:30:56 pm

Well, Jason, both my mom and I agree: we would totally buy a book entitled "World's Weirdest Bible Excerpts!"

Jason Colavito link
1/2/2014 01:57:31 pm

Aaron, I have the Qur'an passage in my notes on Irenaeus, but I may promote it to its own heading. I'm not sure yet.

The Other J.
1/10/2014 08:58:08 am

"The Gospel According to ET" should totally be your preface, or in a conclusion. There should be some acknowledgment that much of this material ends up becoming a supplement for biblical interpretation, and that even if the book proper is more even-handed about the source of much of the material, there is more out there that exists precisely to be an alien god in the gaps of the the god in the gaps.

Such fringe theorizing still strikes me as a kind of Protestantism gone mad, where direct interpretation of religious experience is up to the subjective interpretations of the individual, and being conversant with the texts used to support one's claims is optional and a la carte. It'd be interesting to see a breakdown of the religious backgrounds of fringe theorists and how they might inform their claims.

Jason Colavito link
1/10/2014 12:57:13 pm

It does seem to be the unstated theme of all of the excerpts that fringe writers are obsessed with religion and are trying to revitalize it in scientific guise.

Aaron Adair link
1/4/2014 05:53:41 pm

Oh, my, I just realized I said what book should be done next "when you're gone". I so meant "when you're Done"! Please, don't be gone any time soon!

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Jason Colavito link
1/4/2014 10:36:27 pm

I figured it was a typo for "done." I didn't think you were plotting my demise to take over my entirely non-lucrative debunking business!

StrongStyleFiction link
1/2/2014 07:37:25 am

What I find interesting is occasionally you find things that could help their argument that fringe history is ignorant of. A short glossary of that would be entertaining, short because I can't imagine a lot of stuff being out there. Then again, perhaps its better not to since you don't want to accidentally aid them.

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Jason Colavito link
1/2/2014 09:45:02 am

Many of the texts I'm printing in the book fringe writers appear to have never actually read but only know secondhand. A couple of pieces took me ages to track down because many modern mainstream scholars work off of old summaries of them rather than the originals. And, of course, a couple haven't been translated before!

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Cathleen Anderson
1/2/2014 09:15:34 am

I'm pretty sure I've seen reference to the Edda.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edda

I'm not an scholar as such but there are mods coming out for Skyrim that are focusing on Northlandic lore as inspiration.

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Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/2/2014 11:24:41 am

But …

WITHOUT more episodes of "America Unearthed" … The Scott Wolter bashers wouldn't know how to spend their time … So … Be grateful, okay … ???

LOL ...

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DAN D
1/2/2014 12:43:09 pm

And....

Where would the Rev spend his time? No sermon about "just lighten up folks".....

I know, it's just the interwebs......lol

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Rev. Gil Photsch
1/2/2014 01:21:54 pm

Lighten up.......

Its just a TV show......

Only Me
1/2/2014 01:30:25 pm

Still stuck on repeat, I see. Lighten up...it's just expression of differing opinions.

The Other J.
1/10/2014 09:07:51 am

If it's all just fake entertainment, I wonder what television the good reverend wouldn't approve of -- or, conversely, would take seriously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6cxNR9ML8k

Titus pullo
1/2/2014 12:06:27 pm

Actually the cursory way america unearthed covers things can easily take up 26episodes. Monster quest as bad as it was had actual investigations ok. Not controlled ones but they hired folks and went looking or doing DNA tests. AE just has wolter doing his mini microscope thing most of the time...I mean he could have led an underwater search for Minoan ship wrecks in the Great Lakes...I actually can't see this sow going another year. Cause it's so boring...but the way they film with constant brief reviews of what they just said and really nice cinematography an episode is easy to film and fast and any subject can take up an episode...see the new world order...a show totally devoid of content.

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Rev. Phil Gotsch
1/2/2014 12:12:19 pm

It's a TV show … Just lighten up and go with the flow and enjoy it ...

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Jon
1/2/2014 07:00:34 pm

It's a TV show being presented as factual by a host who finds no credible evidence of anything, and then states he believes it anyway. Sounds like religion to me, and seems just as dangerous.

B L
1/3/2014 04:51:36 am

Are you truly a "Rev.", Phil Gotsch? Scott Wolter makes a living and cultivates his own celebrity by publicly undermining the cornerstones of the Christian religion.

Counting him as one of your personal friends is one thing. Defending the garbage that he spouts is something else. How do you reconcile this with your own religious views?

If you truly are a Reverend then Scott Wolter's Jesus bloodline/Knights Templar narrative is making your job harder and is reaching more people more efficiently than your own work.

Clint Knapp
1/3/2014 02:51:22 pm

Phil, if it was "just a TV show" you wouldn't feel compelled to come and tell us all this. You'd ignore the criticism of the show entirely and leave Jason and the folks who support his stance alone.

BL, if it helps any, I'm a Reverend too. One of the great wonders of the Internet in the early 2000s was Ulc.org, the United Life Church. Not sure if they're still operating, but I'd be willing to bet they are. Five minutes to sign up registered you in the church's records as a Reverend. They even provided a nice little certificate to print out- I still have mine.

Of course, they also sold metaphysical degrees online, so do what you will with the credibility of any of it.

The Other J.
1/10/2014 09:12:22 am

So -- are you admitting Scott Wolter is just a highly-produced bullshitter playing on public stupidity to scam them out of their dollars? That we shouldn't take anything he says at face value? P.T. Barnum was man enough to admit it.

On a similar note, do you tell your parishioners that lying is okay if the people you lie to are dumb enough to buy it?

Jennifer Adams
1/3/2014 08:42:45 am

Firstly, I like to thank you using quotes of my blog for yours. And thank you for bringing to my attention that I sound gullible in the wayward ways of television entertainment. It also makes me more aware that I need to explain things more clearly in my post when talking about certain things, such as my blog post that you're so inclined to go on discussing in your very own however, making me sound 'ignorant'. I did not state whether or not I believed in Wolter's television show, but what I did do is bring to light what should've been said by Wolter. I had corrected some of the information Wolter's had quoted incorrectly.
Yes, I did turn in the paper as part of a grade on sun worshipping - not on the Celtic Sun Worshiping I saw on TV as you stated. If you continued to read what I posted, I actually said I had to do some research to make sure what I was writing was fact. I used scholarly links to back up some of the inaccuracies that Wolter's quoted on the TV show America Unearthed. I do not believe Wolter and what is said on his TV show. I do know that he IS a forensic geologist, whose job is to carbon date rocks and minerals. I am curious how he can pull off giving factual historical evidence just from looking at rocks. Yes, the show some some entertaining points. But what my post and paper was written about, was on Mithraism and it's background and why I was so inclined to discuss and write about it.
So with that being said, maybe you should've asked me, one the sources for your blog's discussion on where I got my information and what I meant to say. Next time, I'll be more carefully to state on how 'gullible' I'm not, when discussing historical inaccuracies.

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Jason Colavito link
1/3/2014 08:51:28 am

I'm sorry if my comments did not accurately reflect your views, Jennifer. I based them on your published comments, which I assumed, since you are an author of a book, reflected your thoughts on the subject. Generally, readers will assume that a published statement reflects the author's views.

It was not my intention to make you sound ignorant; instead, I was hoping to highlight an important point: That even people who have an interest in the subjects being presented can face challenges in determining whether a television program labeled as "History" is credible.

Thank you for clarifying your views, and I will add a note to the post above directing readers to your comments. You are also right that it's important to carefully distinguish in a blog post between summaries of others' views (can I assume that some of your comments were summaries of History's hype about Wolter?) and your own so readers don't confuse the two.

By the way, just for future references, rocks can't be carbon dated (Wolter uses his own made-up science of rock dating unrecognized by other geologists), and forensic geologists work with modern crime scenes, not ancient sites.

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Dan
1/3/2014 09:10:56 am

Jennifer's blog says: "Such as the Mayan’s built temples in Georgia, Egyptian tribes once lived in Oklahoma, the Knights Templar roaming in the Nevada desert. All of these groups of people past history says is inaccurate, but evidence being brought forth shows otherwise"

How does what she actually posted on her site quoted above support AT ALL what she's just posted here. Yes,. she was gullible and believed Wolter. Yes, after this was pointed out by Jason and others, she considered that Wolter's claims are ridiculous and is now backtracking furiously. Be honest and admit you were hoodwinked.

"Generally, readers will assume that a published statement reflects the author's views."

Indeed.

Jennifer Adams
1/3/2014 09:18:18 am

Yes, you may use the fact that I do not follow into what Wolter says on his show. It was the reason why I had to research sun worshipping. I guess what I should've put in my blog post was that Wolter said the particular group in Oklahoma's Sun Worshippers - Mithraism - came from an ancient Egyptian Apis Bull - that is however, incorrect and I actually corrected it in my blog post - it is from a Roman bull. I had to study Zoroasterism in one of my many History classes, and Mithraism is a branch off of it.
The whole reason for my blog post was to state that we were talking about sun worshippers as a religion in one of my college classes. I had seen Wolter's show and an episode on it - Mithriasm . I had to write a response paper for class on our topic discussion and yes, I talked about viewing the show and how it was talking about sun worshipping and Mithraism. But, the ending half of the blog was the accurate part of what Mithraism is and it's history.
Wolter's episode was called A Deadly Sacrifice: http://www.history.com/shows/america-unearthed/episodes/season-1

Jason Colavito link
1/3/2014 09:25:08 am

I do want to be sure to point out again that Mithras-worshipers or otherwise, no Celts or Egyptians ever were in Oklahoma in pre-Columbian times.

Dave Lewis
1/3/2014 06:41:22 pm

Hi Jennifer!

I'm so sorry that you had an unpleasant experience with your blog/this blog. Unfortunately when we post things on the internet we are then subject to somebody saying, "you're wrong," usually very impolitely. I learned this a long time ago the hard way. There are people, known as "trolls" who search the internet for people to insult. Jason Colavito isn't a troll even though he kinda looks like one in his picture. (just kidding!) We have trolls on this blog occasionally.

Good luck with your writing.

Dave Lewis



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Dan
1/4/2014 02:04:27 pm

Mega Irony Alert!

James Croughton
1/4/2014 08:25:11 am

You wrote, in all apparent seriousness, that the show had presented evidence of Egyptians in pre-Colombian America, Templars in Nevada, and so forth. You also wrote that the show was 'correcting the history that we’ve been taught in school'. You appear to take these ideas seriously, Mithras and Apis aside. I think that was Jason's point.

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The Other J.
1/10/2014 09:35:44 am

Your list of sources is impressively exhaustive. I don't know if this would help or not, but as for Miscellaneous Mysteries, there are two accounts of Celtic lake monsters that predate Loch Ness by a few years -- St. Patrick at Croagh Patrick, and St. Kevin at Glendalough (both in Ireland).

St. Patrick fasted at Croagh Patrick for 40 days in 441 CE, and was said to have banished a monster on the mountain into the the lake, Lough na Corra (the monster was supposedly called Corra; Patrick tossed a silver bell down the mountain at the monster and knocked it into the lake). That's in the Book of Armagh.

The Croagh Patrick story most likely influenced the St. Kevin story, where he similarly banished a serpent monster into the lake at the monastery he built at Glendalough (which is really gorgeous, by the way). That was around 540 CE, and was recorded in the Lives of St. Kevin.

I'm not sure if the dates of those written accounts pre-date or post-date the first recorded account of the monster in Loch Ness, but a saint banishing a monster into a lake seems to be a common theme across the early Christian Celtic fringe.

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Jason Colavito link
1/10/2014 12:58:02 pm

Thanks! I'll look those up.

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