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Article #317Re: oj aka brentwood butcher and nbc
From: Stan Horwitz
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:00
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Mike Dickerson (dickerso@netcom.com) wrote: : One thing the networks are learning quickly is that it is : almost always profitable to do exploitive tabloid trash. : This has been proven over, and over, and over again by the : cheesy tabloids at your local supermarket checkout counter : that continue to make money every year with this stuff. : The networks are figuring out how to make this strategy pay : in their medium. Unfortunately, tabloid trash on TV is : not likely to go away. Remember, no network ever went out : of business underestimating the intelligence of its audience. You're right that the news media finds a lot of profit behind spreading gossip and trash. Remember though that WE (at least many of us) own stock in these companies and enough of us buy this trash. The news media is simply responding to the demand of its stock holders to make as much profit as it can make and the public is supplying the demand for this trash. If the public would stop buying trashy tabloid newspapers and watching the same junk on TV, then there would be not motivation for the news media to put out this junk. -- My name is Stan Horwitz and my E-mail address is stan@astro.ocis.temple.edu My opinions are all mine. They do not reflect those of my employer.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c68b,c103c553961e37a8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c68b,public X-Google-Thread: 110235,c103c553961e37a8 X-Google-Attributes: gid110235,public X-Google-Thread: f9306,cb7bfb3c07c7ed9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9306,public X-Google-Thread: f4f15,c103c553961e37a8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4f15,public X-Google-Thread: f8a21,c103c553961e37a8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8a21,public X-Google-Thread: fb8b9,c103c553961e37a8 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb8b9,public X-Google-Thread: 10a5b2,c103c553961e37a8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a5b2,public X-Google-Thread: fbf61,c103c553961e37a8 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbf61,public From: stan@thunder.ocis.temple.edu (Stan Horwitz) Subject: Re: oj aka brentwood butcher and nbc Date: 1995/10/19 Message-ID: <46696o$oi2@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> X-Deja-AN: 117804347 references: <44k4to$ft8@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <44mqdk$1and@fidoii.cc.lehigh.edu> <44n0m7$j36@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <44q5dg$fua@dobie.loop.com> <44us <45i9ot$iln@ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> <45m07h$5fs@tali.UCHSC.edu> <45mmmb$287@crl7.crl.com> <super.197.0006751D@mindspring.com> <dickersoDGJzEH.4rs@netcom.com> organization: Temple University, Academic Computer Services newsgroups: phl.singles,atl.singles,ba.personals,ba.singles,dfw.personals,dfw.singles,houston.personals,houston.singles,ne.singles,nv.singles nntp-posting-user: stan