Shooshmoo
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Still think it's bullshit?
Yes -- moreso.
Still think it's bullshit?
Not at all. if the PUBLIC didn't like what the "liberal agenda" the industry put forth, they would vote with their ratings.
What this also shows is that conservatives are pussies. They don't want to invest their money is a business where you have a better chance of losing than making money.
It's the golden rule baby. He who has the gold makes the rules.
Put up some money and pick your properties.
You're implying that a liberal agenda on television is caused by previous good ratings of liberal shows, when that causality isn't supported by the article; It's simply correlated to the political leanings of the industry, and that's all. Most television, good or bad, failing or not, has a liberal agenda, because the majority of TV execs have a liberal agenda. I don't think that the political leanings of scripted television are strong enough or obvious enough to have much effect on ratings, one way or another.
The article is total BS. It talks about a show (M*A*S*H) that was taken from an anti-war movie and has been off the air for decades. Regarding Friends it talks about ONE show out of close to 200 shows.
If you look at the top rated shows today you have things like NCIS and all the CSIs as well as Blue Bloods, Hawaii Five-0 and other Top 25 shows that are clearly conservative in their leanings.
Sitcoms about people in the teens to twenties by necesssity are going to be
"liberal leaning", because that's what people of that age group are.
If you think politics trumps money in Hollyweird you are delusional.
I don't think that the political leanings of scripted television are strong enough or obvious enough to have much effect on ratings, one way or another.
But the premise of liberals running the media IS that it does exactly that.
No, the premise of liberals running the media is that liberals run the media. If conservatives run Wall Street, is it because they are conservatives?
Liberals DON'T run the media. Multi-national corporations run the media.
There is ONE significant studio that is truly run by liberals-Dreamworks. That's becasue Speilberg, Katzenberg, Geffen and Allen put up their OWN money to get it started.
Yes, the people who own the companies probably aren't overwhelmingly liberal. The people with creative control over what goes on television, such as writing, acting, and directing are overwhelmingly liberal.
Not overwhelmingly, but your last few posts are pretty fair. Most of the creative directors are personally liberal, and that's usually because those type of jobs appeal to liberal personalities more than conservative ones. That said, liberal execs don't hunt for only liberal shows, they hunt for highly rated shows, politics notwithstanding. Highly interesting conservative premises are just harder to find. Idealism tends to track closer with liberalism, and idealism is one of the constant themes of television.
Which would you rather watch, a West Wing show about liberal, idealist activist staffers trying to come up with new and creative ways for the government to help solve national problems, or conservative staffers enacting necessary austerity, reducing spending and cutting back on government's size. Regardless of anyone's personal political bent, it's pretty obvious which would scenario makes for better TV.
I think they hate that Chevy Chase nailed how moronic old, conservative, white men are.
Not according to many people who work in the industry who complain that the bosses get too much input.
Now the Chuck Lorres, Mark Burnetts and Dick Wolfs of the world can do anything they want and have no real oversight, but until you get to that level they do look over your shoulder.