So You Want to Be a "Reality" TV Star: Everything I Learned About Sex, Drugs, Fraud, Rock and Roll, and Vipers as Team Leader of Discovery Channel's T - Paperback

by Cork Graham (Author)

WARNING: Get your copy before Discovery Communications tries to silence the author NEVER BEFORE SEEN PHOTOS FROM THE BOOK: Cappy was three sheets to the wind, stuck in a hole in the jungle, and screaming, "WHERE'S MY RIFLE? THERE'S GOOKS EVERYWHERE " A good buddy and retired Marine colonel] told me, "Geezus-watch your six. They might try to take you out " In his latest controversial memoir, Cork Graham blows the lid off the reality TV industry. Graham entered this world of fraudulent broadcasting as team leader of Discovery Channel's 2015 #1 New Hit Series TREASURE QUEST: SNAKE ISLAND. Invited to lead a hunt for the mysterious Treasure of the Trinity, he soon learned that there was no way any treasure would be found in what was a fully scripted show advertised to the public as a "true-life" documentary. He quickly learned the character profile and show model that is used to produce "reality" TV shows not only at Discovery Communications, but also at A&E and National Geographic in such Fakeumentaries as BERING SEA GOLD, GOLD RUSH, DUAL SURVIVAL, HUNTING HITLER, ALASKA THE LAST FRONTIER, and LIFE BELOW ZERO. Global and far-reaching, Graham even takes to task embassies and news services for their ignorance of the impact on various national histories, through a media format that has paved the way for "Fake News." With Discovery Communications CEO David Zaslav making over $42 Million in 2017, there's a lot at stake

Author Biography

Cork Graham received international notoriety in 1983 as an 18-year-old photojournalist, and US Naval Reserve midshipman, captured and imprisoned by the Socialist Rep. of Vietnam for 11 months while photographing a clandestine treasure hunt and reports of American MIAs lost in Indochina in 1975. This story became the subject of his first international bestselling memoir, THE BAMBOO CHEST: An Adventure in Healing the Trauma of War. Soon after his release from Vietnam, he was in Central America continuing his career as a photojournalist. He is the second American to have completed the Salvadoran Navy Special Forces course. With combat experiences spanning ten years in Southeast Asia, and Latin America, both as a combatant and photo historian/photojournalist and later as a paramilitary officer, he has advised and instructed a variety of military and LE units in counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency, and counter-piracy. His latest media adventure was as an actor on Discovery Channel's, 2015 #1 non-spin-off hit series, TREASURE QUEST: SNAKE ISLAND of which this expos? is about.