Are The Producers remaking Bob Roberts ? | 19 comments (19 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Are The Producers (4.00 / 5)

Personally I think that audiences are falling because their content is inane and repetitive. They've floowed the "We inform, you decide" path to such an extent, without ever recognising their role as editor, that people assume that there is a middle path, a bipartizan solution you might, to be taken on any subject. Especially where this very arena of television favours the loudest and most foolish.

People forget that the fall in sales did not preceed the massive job losses in editorial journalism, it followed it. The job losses were brought about by financial management that required 30% return on investment per annum. Then we ended up in the msm death spiral as dumb content failed to attract readers and so needed ever greater cuts to keep the profits up.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Sep 26th, 2010 at 07:58:04 AM EST
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Re: Are The Producers (4.00 / 5)

The msm death spiral reminds me of the garrotting of another public amenity -- public transit.

It "has to pay for itself" (i.e. be made profitable for some rentier somewhere) so jack the prices up and reduce the service... which reduces ridership... which reduces revenues... so jack the prices up some more... rinse, repeat until the patient dies.

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Sun Sep 26th, 2010 at 11:14:40 AM EST
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Re: Are The Producers (4.00 / 2)

Ben there

The job losses were brought about by financial management that required 30% return on investment per annum.

done that.

For all the good it did, there were a lot of us, in various newsrooms at the time, yelling and hollering that This. Will. Not. End. Well. But as someone said, your voice is guaranteed being heard only if you own the printing press.

by Mnemosyne on Sun Sep 26th, 2010 at 03:34:41 PM EST
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Oops. "Been." Proofreading is my friend.

by Mnemosyne on Sun Sep 26th, 2010 at 03:35:33 PM EST
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Are The Producers remaking Bob Roberts ? | 19 comments (19 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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