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Article #356Re: oj aka brentwood butcher and nbc
From: Mike Dickerson
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 00:00
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Steve Jones (super@mindspring.com) wrote: : In article <45mmmb$287@crl7.crl.com> goodbest@crl.com (Larry E. Good) writes: : >Not as quickly nor surely as from negative mail. : Gotta disagree...they are a business, and their bottom line is ad revenues, : which are in turn determined by viewership. Furthermore, personally, I would : not want to actually see someone "forbidden" from the airwaves...smacks of : censorship. However, I would have no problem with it simply becoming very : unprofitable to do exploitive, tabloid trash ;) One thing the networks are learning quickly is that it is almost always profitable to do exploitive tabloid trash. This has been proven over, and over, and over again by the cheesy tabloids at your local supermarket checkout counter that continue to make money every year with this stuff. The networks are figuring out how to make this strategy pay in their medium. Unfortunately, tabloid trash on TV is not likely to go away. Remember, no network ever went out of business underestimating the intelligence of its audience. Mike
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c68b,c103c553961e37a8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c68b,public X-Google-Thread: 110235,c103c553961e37a8 X-Google-Attributes: gid110235,public X-Google-Thread: 10a5b2,c103c553961e37a8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a5b2,public X-Google-Thread: f9306,cb7bfb3c07c7ed9,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf9306,public X-Google-Thread: f8a21,c103c553961e37a8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8a21,public X-Google-Thread: f4f15,c103c553961e37a8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4f15,public X-Google-Thread: fbf61,c103c553961e37a8 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbf61,public X-Google-Thread: fb8b9,c103c553961e37a8 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb8b9,public From: dickerso@netcom.com (Mike Dickerson) Subject: Re: oj aka brentwood butcher and nbc Date: 1995/10/16 Message-ID: <dickersoDGJzEH.4rs@netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 117645401 sender: dickerso@netcom22.netcom.com references: <44k4to$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> followup-to: phl.singles,atl.singles,ba.personals,ba.singles,dfw.personals,dfw.singles,houston.personals,houston.singles,ne.singles,nv.singles organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) newsgroups: phl.singles,atl.singles,ba.personals,ba.singles,dfw.personals,dfw.singles,houston.personals,houston.singles,ne.singles,nv.singles