Posted on 07/07/2017 5:35:27 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
Since the inception of "the media", (post-WW2), what has this so-called 'industry' actually contributed to the national gross product?
Think about it. What can a television manufacture? What does a radio manufacture?
Just the gross.
I thought they just produced gross products.
Propaganda...it's what they produce. That's bad enough. But, when it's encouraged, enabled and outright subsidized by the ‘state’-it’s criminally irresponsible, dishonest and lethal.
Madison Avenue, hardwre manufacturers (transmitters, antenna, receivers) some amount of construction (studios), then the daily production.
What has the internet contributed to the nation's gross national product? Same sort of calculus.
What has Boradway and off-braodway (down to the high school thespians) contributed to the nation's gross national product? Entertainment (which news is part of) is a big business.
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Mass Advertising.
If you count the entertainment business (American tv, movies, and music) they contribute a lot.
IMO, the media are the same as the so-called movie “stars”, sports athletes, etc., they produce nothing physical or tangible.
“The New York Times.... How many poor, unfortunate trees have died in the manufacturing of that fish wrap... Liberals should be ashamed.”
You know how you pull the NY Slimes out of the cellar? Keep the crossword, get rid of the rest of the paper and move the operation to a strip mall in Woodbridge NJ.
I would say they are a gross national product.
what has this so-called ‘industry’ actually contributed?
Deviance, Moral Bankruptcy, Propaganda
A negative number.
I knew I could count on fellow FReepers!
Do not lump all the media together, you sound like an anti gun nut blaming every gun owner for the actions of a small subset, while some of the media is despicable, there is plenty of fantastic content created, music books movies etc. And millions of jobs and tax revenue from those companies as well.
Dear edzo,
In TODAY’S vernacular, “the media” does NOT count books - although they should, music - although they should.
Hollywood has gone full Socialist queer anti-gun and anti-everything that America WAS.
Since millenials no longer read actual books, who is looking at the content of “books” they read?
“Rap” music, which is not music, is vile, filthy, anti-cop, anti-white, anti-social.
Modern day overpriced not-in-any-shape-or-form-a-comic-book “graphic novels”, are pornographic violence, and I’m saying that, as a Vietnam vet!!!
I am a supporter of the 2A, and a believer in concealed carry.
“Jobs and tax revenue” are a moot point, when all that you do does not contribute to the Gross National Product. A comic book is entertainment - no buildings ever built with that. A movie is entertainment - no bridges ever built with that. Music ... of any genre, has never framed a window, installed a commode, or tore down a neighbor’s car engine.
All the stuff Hollywood builds, is fake, even their firearms.
“Entertainment” for the last decade, or more, has become “indoctrination” to the ‘newer, improved’ social mores of this present day, whether they contribute to society or not.
Dear Ted Grant,
re: “If you count the entertainment business (American tv, movies, and music) they contribute a lot.”
Legal Definition of gross national product
: the total value of the goods and services produced by the residents of a nation during a specified period (as a year)
“Entertainment” is not a “service”, i.e., barber, plumber.
I do not disagree that the content created is often crap, but to claim that all the 2 million people employed and $46 billion in wages to the film industry alone does not contribute to the economy is just false.
http://www.mpaa.org/u-s-film-and-tv-production-drives-economic-growth-in-every-corner-of-america/
Pretty sure books, music, movies, and tv are included in GNP, bro.
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