The Washington Post published an article this week that cited research accusing The Discovery Channel's annual Shark Week of 'overwhelmingly' featuring white men as shark experts compared to other demographics.The claimed that the fan-favorite predator-centric week lacks diversity and over-represents guys named Mike. The study on which the article is based claimed that there have been more shark experts named Mike featured on all Shark Weeks combined than women.The study was led by Lisa Whitenack, a biology professor, who grew up loving sharks but seeing very few people who looked like her talking about them on TV.
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