The other networks of course went wall to wall coverage as this was great. Headlines blared "Discovery Network programming upsets man, hostages held".
I've got a lot of good friends at Discovery and at one point it really was a marvelous network. It still brands itself better than anyone and its offerings are far past the Discovery/The Learning Channel duo of 15 years ago. Of late, however, particularly since they went "public", there is a lot more vanilla than normal and its a shame.
Not worth pulling a pistol over but a shame non-the-less.