TLC's Cesspit of Exploitation and Abuse | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Go to http://athenaclub.com and use code casket for 20% off your first order. Go to http://expressvpn.com/casket to get an extra 3 months free. Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a semiweekly series where bad businesses go to die. We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses that have a lot to hide. TLC, also known as ‘The Learning Channel’ is notorious for exploiting its guests. It features minors on its programs but doesn’t seem to treat them with any kind of care or concern, instead, creating infamous figures like HoneyBooBoo. Does TLC condone forms of child abuse? Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii Sources: https://justpaste.it/4bq3w Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	TLC, it's a guilty pleasure for many where people can binge watch reality TV programs
0:09.5	and think to themselves, at least I'm not addicted to eating X, Y, Z. But did you know that TLC was once
0:16.2	a learning channel founded by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare along with
0:20.3	NASA? Seriously, how did we take something so educational to, well, exploiting kids, promoting conversion
0:27.6	therapy, and faking, talking to dead people? Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the corporate casket.
0:36.0	I'm the aluminati and today we're going to be discussing TLC and one of the biggest
0:40.3	accusations hurled at them, exploiting their stars.
0:44.0	The channel has gone through a bit of a year of reckoning,
0:46.0	as Jizabel puts it, especially after the fallout with the dugers.
0:49.0	While the network said they were saddened to learn about the allegations around Josh, they still
0:53.7	kept the family on their payroll to some extent.
0:57.0	You might not be able to get 19 kids and counting on Discover Plus or Amazon, but you can still
1:01.6	buy them on YouTube, Google Play, and Voodoo.
1:04.4	If they truly wanted to erase this program from the Internet, they certainly could have.
1:08.3	But it just seems that TLC isn't willing to let go of their past and these prophets just yet.
1:14.3	Jezebel calls their public displays of redemption futile.
1:17.9	Media critic and author of the 2010 book on the ethics of reality TV Jennifer
1:22.1	Pozer compares TLC to a restaurant that
1:24.7	shuts down after feeling health inspections. You can't bring that restaurant back
1:29.3	with the same owners, the same chefs, the same menu, and the same back-end supplies in the kitchen, thinking
1:34.4	you're going to get different dishes in the front of the house.
1:37.4	We're just going to give you new laminated menus menus that are shinier.
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