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Vampires In The Media
The popularity of vampires as a media topic hasn't really
changed over the years. What HAS changed, however, is how the media treats
real vampires. In 2004, National Geographic ran the "Blood Rites"
episode of their Taboo series - and was pretty much the first major documentary
format to not compare us to serial killers, mass murderers, and the psycho
of the week - in the same episode.
That seems to have opened the proverbial can of worms -
Mad Mad House (a reality show, not a documentary) came after that, followed
by more documentaries by the History Channel and A&E (2005 to 2007)
that focused on us in a much more respectable light. In addition, numerous
interview articles in magazines and other periodicals continue to reveal
more aspects of the community - despite the assortment of fruitcakes and
nutjobs on talk shows - along with the beginning of an explosion of self-created
user videos on YouTube about real vampires and the vampire community.
(All links in the Media section go to offsite locations,
however for consistency with
the rest of the site the  pin
icon will still be used for each link.)
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