You have zero credibility here as you are obviously biased against the channel based on nothing other than your political views and whatever your media sources feed you. Why should I easily understand those being skeptical? Thats obviously your opinion and you simply expect people to accept it? You are giving excuses for people who are basing opinions of a show without actually watching it and insinuating that people at that channel and those who watch would be in favor of slavery and the confederacy. Sorry but im calling that what it is...childish and irresponsible.
What I'm hearing is that since I'm calling a channel you like having a serious issues with historical accuracy and representation that you are claiming I have zero credibility. You are also making claims on my political views while I haven't shared any of my political views (which would be against the rules if not carefully carved out to Civil War relevance... and even then potentially). So you are making many assumptions based on information I have never posted on this forum. I would suggest you might assume less since you might be surprised how many of those assumptions might be incorrect. All I'll say in regards to this is I give every mainstream news TV Station a pretty low bar when it come to historical accuracy (again I will not comment on politics beyond that since that's inappropriate in this forum, but my bar is pretty low in general for them all lol). This is not out of some malice towards a single Station or all of them, that they have proven to have a bad track record when validated in regards to history (there is plenty of material out there, evaluation by historians, I highly recommending doing research).
As far as
"insinuating that people at that channel and those who watch would be in favor of slavery and the confederacy"
That's not at all what I gathered from many posters. For one it's dangerous to generalize all the people who don't like this show as that, just like it would be dangerous to generalize all viewers of channel. I will say in my own anecdotal experience I have in fact known avid viewers of the channel that ascribe to similar beliefs you suggest are insinuated, though I would never personally generalize all viewers of a channel to something that specific and I didn't get that from most (maybe any, I'd have to re-read the thread) posters here. It feels like your are trivializing the multiple views expressed that don't like the content via your own personal opinion on the content as if that's an absolute disproof. It just doesn't add up to me and I don't like either group over generalized.
In any case we are all biased in our own way and whether you give me credibility or not is absolutely of no concern to me. I never post or discuss to convince anywhere or to establish any credibility. Take what I say with a grain of salt, just please don't generalize what I say based on pure assumptions and some web of clustering with someone else.
And have you read the thread? It would be one thing if people "who watched the content and do not agree with your rosy assessment" actually watched the entire series and then gave their critique, but they didnt. The negative posts were here early in the series after a few episodes and really had nothing to do with the show but the channel, and then crickets. So what you argue there isnt accurate either.
I have read the thread and have been following, wondering if it was worth giving some time to even consider this material. The reality is there is more material out there than time. I have a queue of books, audio books, lectures, etc on Civil War history. The same is true I'm sure for you and every other poster here. We are not the average viewer of any of these channels in regards to Civil War history. Honestly I've been underwhelmed with *most* historical representation on any mainstream news channel (and the one we're referring to is the most popular and most mainstream). I've even become very disillusioned with other mainstream History centric channels, like History (though there are some exceptional programs from time to time, it being less of a single source and narrative than any of the news channels, so the quality varies greatly). Despite all that I can find specific hosts and shows I like on each major news channel. I won't ignore the channel something is on, that is a part of their decision and the history of said channel and it's record on a specific context should be a factor, but I will personally only make judgement calls on something specifically I have consumed and given a fair evaluation, I have not with this specific show. At least yet.
Enough people I respect have said at least decent things about I might give it a go.
Obviously some of the posters who didn't like the content didn't watch the whole thing since it hadn't been released fully yet. So I don't know how that's a fair metric. I'd be curious on their perspectives of the newer content, though if they didn't like earlier content I don't know if that view would change.
I do not mind if people dont like the show or find it innacurate, fine. But some of the posts in this thread about the channel and their expectations were flat wrong and i wondered if we would see those posters back admitting it. But of course we wont. Theyll just go on believing fox news diminishes slavery and favors the confederacy.
By your determination they are flat wrong, but you might be surprised that others might not hold to the same determination you have of their expectations. Thats kind of the point.