Funny...
Posted on 01/20/2006 2:09:35 PM PST by abb
I just don't like the political stuff they produce. It's funny that they don't seem to care about not making as much money as they should, but they don't.
More power to 'em, but I think they are going down.
Thanks! I rent movies, but 9 times out of 10 they're older than 15 or 20 years. We're renting Network tonight.
It is puzzling that they don't seem to care about making money. I think what they think is that if they get "artistic" enough or the equivalent, then with the "proper" approach their message will be embraced. That's essentially the MSM's approach. They think that most of America truly thinks like they do but that they simply aren't articulating or expressing themselves correctly. So they repackage and reinvent and remake things all the while continuing to try things differently.
Just as with CNN taking on Beck, I think they're at a point now where they're having to come to grips with reality and either go down the drain as you say or to do what will make them money. Obvoiusly that's the opposite of what they've been doing.
As to Hollywood, the advent of the internet and computers in general have given consumers far more options for entertainment. Video games of far higher quality than the first few generations of arcade games are now available for home use. Good movies and other options such as mini-series on HBO or wherever are taking a chunk out of Hollywood's revenues. Not to mention that Hollywood's continued flaunting of their perverted morals have simply pissed off most of a nation, and they simply aren't playing to the mainstream, contrary to their notions. The truly good movies, and I mean movies with a decent plot/storyline, do make money as do the films for kids. The rake in the bucks.
When Reagan died, I had the privilege of being able to watch all the Reagan movies that he did during that time. He made like 15 movies to my surprise. Most of them were very, very good. Far better than the crap they put out today. Most had a good moral message too. It made me realize that the movies of yesteryear by far exceed those of today for entertainment.
At some point they're gonna come up with a way to watch movies at home or in smaller venues that don't take the overhead of the big plex movie theaters, that still give you the big screen experience. When they do, it'll be the death knell of the theaters. Who knows what that'll mean to Hollywood.
It has recently occurred to me that one of the main reasons the MSM is always bemoaning the state of the economy may not in fact be deliberately trying to paint a negative picture, but may in fact be that their particular industry sector has been in a recession for quite some time and it gives them a gloomy lens through which they view the world.
If there is constant talk of falling revenue, job cuts, salary cuts, etc in your office, you're going to think the economy sucks too.
Nice thread... Just the thing to bring a smile to my face....
Ever since Brokeback Mountain, it changed the whole meaning of a cowboy sneaking up behind the other and saying "This is a stick-up!"
Good analysis. It is only logical that the sale of spanish newspapers would go up as our country is flooded with Spanish speakers who do not have computers. I don't think growth will continue in the long term.
Hollywood is ignoring the fall of American audiences as well and surviving on support overseas but they don't have much competition overseas, whereas foreign liberal news sources are a dime a dozen. This leaves liberal American news sources out of market.
It would be interesting to know when the slide in American newspaper subscriptions actually fell. I think it started falling big before everyone had a computer to read the news. I remember in the early 90's the newspaper gods claiming subscriptions were falling because the papers were not "diverse" enough in staffing. There are enough English speakers to make an American paper successful however there are not enough Democrat party liberals to make the papers survive.
Something I have been wondering about; Newspapers claim their on line readership is strong based on the number of hits they get. Do they include the poll hits run up by Freepers and Dummies in those numbers?
"foreign liberal news sources are a dime a dozen."
I guess your right, American papers will be in trouble if the globalists get their way, since they won't have a monopoly on a captive market. Ironic thing is that the liberal polices of these papers often support global authority and weak sovereign powers, so in effect they are hanging themselves in the long run.
Not really. These media outlets have granted themselves the power to decree the Truth upon us and to compel us to believe that Truth, however much Truth may diverge from reality. Our national economy, therefore, is Truly worse than even the Great Depression, which of course conforms to reality only in a few sectors (liberal newspapers, General Motors, buggy whips, major airlines, Northeastern tax-opressed businesses, etc.) But the media convinces the American people that things are as they experience them; thus, the American people believe that the economy is deeply recessed or depressed--and heading worse every day. Of course, the blame for all this melancholy malarkey falls exclusively on the Bush Administration and the Republicans, for so hath decreed the Truth upon us.
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