{"id":1766811,"date":"2022-12-07T17:18:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T22:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1766811"},"modified":"2022-12-07T17:18:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T22:18:19","slug":"wapo-claims-shark-week-has-too-many-men-named-mike-and-lacks-diversity-former-host-mike-rowe-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-claims-shark-week-has-too-many-men-named-mike-and-lacks-diversity-former-host-mike-rowe-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Claims \u2018Shark Week\u2019 Has Too Many \u2018Men Named Mike\u2019 And \u2018Lacks Diversity\u2019 \u2013 Former Host Mike Rowe Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwapo-claims-shark-week-has-too-many-men-named-mike-and-lacks-diversity-former-host-mike-rowe-responds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1766811&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former \u201cShark Week\u201d host <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/mike-rowes-mom-reveals-the-weirdest-thing-he-ever-sent-her-while-working-dirty-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Rowe<\/a> had a few thoughts about a recent Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/12\/05\/shark-week-diversity-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> claiming that the Discovery Channel\u2019s regular summer event \u201clacks diversity\u201d and \u201coverrepresents men named Mike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rowe, who hosted the annual week-long event in both 2006 and 2008, responded to the Post\u2019s assertion by crowd-sourcing a response via social media. Having not yet had his coffee, he explained, he needed a little outside help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood Morning. As a white male named Mike who hosted Shark Week more than once, this headline caught my eye in The Washington Post,\u201d Rowe began, explaining that he had come across the article while in New York City to promote another new season of the show that made him a household name: \u201cDirty Jobs.\u201d The new season, he noted, is set to premiere on Discovery on Sunday at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not yet had my coffee, or time to formulate a cogent response, but in the course of promoting a new season of \u2018Dirty Jobs,\u2019 (Sunday at 8pm on Discovery,) I suspect I might be asked to respond specifically to this headline,\u201d Rowe continued, calling on his fans to make suggestions as to how he should respond.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/readers-pass\/read-only-v2?utm_campaign=dwplus&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_source=dwsite&#038;cid=dwplus&#038;mid=z&#038;xid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/readers-pass\/read-only-v2?utm_campaign=dwplus&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_source=dwsite&#038;cid=dwplus&#038;mid=z&#038;xid=0\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-54730\">TIRED OF THE LEGACY MEDIA\u2019S BIAS CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE AND OBSCURING THE TRUTH? JOIN US.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have any thoughts or suggestions, please leave them in the comments below,\u201d Rowe added, warning, \u201cUnless of course, you\u2019re a white guy named Mike.\u00a0I think we\u2019ve all heard quite enough from you \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rowe concluded the message with a postscript reminding fans once again about the upcoming Sunday premiere of the new season of \u201cDirty Jobs\u201d \u2014 and then added a second postscript, musing, \u201cGotta wonder how former Shark Week host, Mike Tyson, is taking the news \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During 2020\u2019s Shark Week, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/watch-as-people-frantically-duck-under-tables-ice-cold-mike-tyson-never-moves-when-man-pulls-a-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tyson<\/a> participated in a stunt labeled \u201cRumble on the Reef,\u201d during which he placed a shark into tonic immobility by grabbing it by the nose. \u201cI am champion of the shark!\u201d Tyson shouted upon his success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Yet another \u201cMike\u201d \u2014 history\u2019s most decorated Olympian of all-time <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/greatest-olympian-all-time-michael-phelps-swims-michael-qazvini\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Phelps<\/a> \u2014 has also appeared as a part of Shark Week programming in 2017, \u201cracing\u201d against a great white shark.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former \u201cShark Week\u201d host Mike Rowe had a few thoughts about a recent Washington Post article claiming that the Discovery Channel\u2019s regular summer event \u201clacks diversity\u201d and \u201coverrepresents men named Mike.\u201d Rowe, who hosted the annual week-long event in both 2006 and 2008, responded to the Post\u2019s assertion by crowd-sourcing a response via social media. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1766814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1766814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}