A business model based on alienating half of your possible customer base is a poor business model.
And yet company after company does that. Why?
The Builders gone?
“And yet company after company does that. Why?”
Brownshirts
They get asked straight up, if the answer is not what the brownshirts want to hear (a non answer is just as bad), then they fear the sociatiel repercussions and cave.
The educational system helped establish those fears.
A business model based on alienating half of your possible customer base is a poor business model.
And yet company after company does that. Why?
Because boycotts work so well. Seriously, the first thing out of the mouths of libs when some business (see Chick-fil-a) or state (see Georgia) does something THEY don’t like is announce a boycott, but the fact of the matter is, boycott’s rarely actually work, and the left knows it. The assumption is people are dumb and lazy and are as likely to cancel Netflix over Politics as they are to cancel the gym membership that they have not set foot in for 3 years.
“...alienating half of your possible customer base is a poor business model....And yet company after company does that. Why?”
Good question. I believe the wealthy Left has come to view media venues and franchises largely as political influence tools, not purely as financial investments.
Shareholders and private owners interested mainly in profit have long since divested after watching ratings drop for years - replaced by a new breed of owners and investors who are seeking to influence public opinion - and are willing to subsidize it by accepting less than optimal profits.
As such, they don’t mind losing conservative audiences which they have already written off as unreachable (deplorable), and are happy to focus on honing their message to the soft middle while playing to their hard Left echo chamber.
This is one of the main reasons Hollywood, Academia and the MSM can stray so far from the values of middle class America - and still survive. They are immensely wealthy - their endowments are beyond belief.
They don’t need to be responsive to the middle class - they don’t seek to serve that market - they seek to shape it in their Leftist image.
I don’t think we will be able to hurt them with boycotts and such - they don’t need our business. It’s going to be a tough nut to crack - somehow we need to expose the evil of their agenda despite their media monopoly.
President Trump is doing great - but we need more like him.