[wildcard_redneck]

“You would think that whoever is in charge of these awards shows would be in danger of losing their jobs, or that the networks would decide to just drop these shows, but I get the feeling neither of those is going to happen.”

Propaganda does not operate on the capitalist profit model. The multinational corporations that run these award shows and have media outlets are willing to lose money to get the results they want.

[GnuThere]

That makes sense b/c otherwise for the life of me I can’t see why these dinosaur, self-congratulatory shows still exist. I doubt I’ve watched one for 20+ years.