Discovery Travel is looking for Survivalist For a 2 hour special

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Discovery Travel is looking for Survivalist For a 2 hour special

A word from SurvivalForum.com:

We have recently been contacted by Ms. Michelle Mahoney regarding their desire to do a 2 hour special on "subculture" in America to include "survivalist."

Since SurvivalForum.com is The Online Survival Community, we wanted to let our visitors have an opportunity to contact Ms. Mahoney regarding their special. Details from The Discovery Show (Ms. Mahoney) are below.

Let's face it.. America is not only baseball and apple pie. Living among us are groups of people who practice rituals and behaviors sometime construed as a "subculture." Discovery Travel will produce a 2 hour special on subcultures of America. This will include so-called "survivalists".

"We are looking for individuals and groups of people in various US regions to tell these stories. The segments will be shot like a documentary and will provide a nice platform for explaining the beliefs of a given "subculture". If there is one particular region that attracts say, survivalists, then we would like to highlight that region. We are the Travel network, afterall. This is not a newsmagazine controversy piece, but really a way to show what each group is all about."

I am looking for a community of survivalists to profile for the Discovery Travel Special. I can fly to where you are. Shooting will take two days. I am looking for the simple survivalists as well as the extreme. I am looking for a story that hasn't been told yet. Please email me if you would like to help. I am based out of SF, CA.

Thanks, Michelle Mahoney

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Franklin

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-- Franklin (webmaster@survivalforum.com), April 01, 2002

Answers

I think surviving every day is enough for me, thank you!

-- Gailann Schrader (gtschrader@aol.com), April 01, 2002.

I've been a survivalist for over twenty years and have long since come to distrust the news and entertainment media. They've done such a hatchet job on us that their credibility is shot. Maybe Ms. Mahoney will surprise us but I won't be expecting much out of the Discovery Show's potrayal of the "survivalist subculture."

For what it's worth, survivalism and homesteading is very nearly one and the same thing, the differences being mostly a matter of scale more than anything else.

.......Alan.

-- Alan (athagan@atlantic.net), April 01, 2002.


Sounds like an underhanded method for Big Brother to seek out those of us they'd like to eliminate..we don't fit into their "New World Order". I sure wouldn't trust them. I am a homesteader/survivalist most of my life and I treasure my privacy & wouldn't get involved. Layne

-- EHC (adirondackwoman@westelcom.com), April 03, 2002.

Don't allow ANYONE to point a gun or a TV camera at you or your property.

-- Griff in OR (griff@hangnail.com), April 03, 2002.

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