Posted on 04/28/2011 10:27:37 AM PDT by UltraConservative
Very quietly, in late March, CBS gave away the greatest secret in television. As AdWeek reported, CBS Corp. Chief Research Officer David Poltrack announced that “age and sex don’t matter when it comes to TV ad effectiveness.”
Alone, this doesn’t sound like anything groundbreaking. After all, most of us figure that ads generally appeal to all of us on an equal basis. But in truth, the admission is absolutely stunning. As I explain in my upcoming book, Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV (Broadside Books, May 31), for over forty years, the television industry has operated from the assumption that young urban viewers are worth more than older rural viewers – and advertisers have bought into that assumption. Because young urban viewers tend to be more liberal than older rural viewers, the logic goes, television must program liberal in order to appeal to the most valuable consumers. Hence television executives’ knee-jerk reaction to all conservative critiques to television’s leftism – “hey, don’t blame us, we’re just reacting to the market.”
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Or, more precisely, "They don’t want to sell “culture” they desensitized the country to the most immoral things possible."
Have you noticed how much filth there is in old Hollywood movies before the sexual revolution of the 1960s?
It was bbrazenly out, but we and our parents were too naive to figure it out.
Later, we became desensitized.
Every present day filth in the media was there since we were kids. Pedophile delights. Sadistic delights and many others. Pervs enjoyed at our expense.
I will not name names, but some major screen names from my childhood and adolescent days make me puke when I attempt to watch them today.
I feel abused.
Kenneth Anger was an eye opener for me - I figured what Hollywood/TV was really feeding us all these years.
I don’t know. The game show network seems to have alot of ads for hover-round scooters and insurance. And Wilford Brimley is pushing “diabetis” supplies a lot.
Much like having a bunch of lions let loose in an arena with a bunch of un-armed Christians. Let the BLOOD FLOW!
I think the response was a little bit general.
It is obvious that there are various niches, and those are determined by content, and broadcast period.
Hollywood caters to the PREDICTED audience. Majority rules. But there is a different majority during the day, than at night.
That should all just be assumed.
That’s why they canceled Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, etc. They didn’t want to be seen as the hick station.
CBS cited this very reason when they canceled "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" and "Murder, She Wrote" to make room for new shows that were targeted to younger viewers.
-PJ
Glee was about a high school choir when it became a hit, then BAM!! NONSTOP gay propaganda throughout the entire show constant, unrelenting, unwavering, not even cleverly disguised, non-stop GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY!!
I can’t even flip past it with the clicker without seeing something about someone gay doing something gay that relates the hardships of being gay. It’s completely ridiculous!
I haven’t watched network TV in 30 years and don’t intend to start now.
What are you talking about? The movies pre the late 1960s span many decades, with varying degrees of code regulations. There was no "filth", hidden in plain sight, as you claim, in the movies from the mid '30s into the mid '60s.
By all accounts, 1939 is hailed as the pinnacle of movie output, with the likes of "GONE WITH THE WIND", "DARK VICTORY", "THE WIZARD OF OZ", "GOODBYE MR.CHIPS", "THE STORY OF VERNON AND IRENE CASTLE, and "THE WOMEN", to name but a few released that year. None of those films pushed "filth".
There were films with adult subject matter, which children did go to see. Films such as "THE MAN IN THE GRAY SUIT", "A GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT", and "ON THE WATERFRONT", from the 1950s, were hardly movies which children would grasp the meaning of, as all dealt with would bore the average child to tears. Yet, such films were well done and of interest to adults. Again, no filth pushing, no "desensitizing" either.
Heck, even such great mid '60s movies, such as "BAREFOOT IN THE PARK", "CAT BALLOU", "THE ILLUSTRATED MAN", "THE ODD COUPLE", and "THE LION IN WINTER" hardly fit your scenario either.
I mostly watch the History channels, the military channels and National Geographic. I’m hoping that before I die I’ll get to see more about Stalin, instead of the constant Hitler, on the History Channel. My friends from Germany could not believe how often he is on TV. Seems we can’t get anything but Hitlers Military. Then again its better watching that than Oprah,the View or that morning guy, who ever he is, that my wife watches. Most of the Hollywood current war movies always seem to be politically slanted and have an agenda. I wonder if Michael Moore writes the scripts? Good night all.
Placemark.
And, I’ve had a TV two years out of the last - well, since I was around 18, but even then I didn’t watch much. I really, really hate it. The only time I had it as an adult was when Klintoon was president and I got to watch the hearings.
I pretty much stopped watching the networks by 2006, but Tom Selleck’s CBS series ‘’Blue Bloods’’ is pretty good, and ‘’Friday Night Lights’’ is back on NBC for its final partial season. Even ‘’Jeopardy’’ is getting so boring to me, and I have watched that since it returned in 1984. I have a Steve McQueen ‘’Wanted Dead or Alive’’ package that is really good. One would be surprised at the spiritual themes in that old program.
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