Hannity and Maddow
Wow, really says something about us.
Go ahead and cheer, though. Dumbfuck
Actually it 'says something' about media.
Not really. Media goes where the money is and the viewers dictate that..
That's sort-of what I mean, but no, absolutely the viewers
don't dictate that. The broadcaster does. I doubt any viewer petitioned mass media to 'please give us inane shows about naked people on an island forced to eat bugs, and fake wrestling, and on-stage paternity tests and oh can we have a camera truck that goes around following philanderers?" This
loserist lowest common denominator swill is concocted to mine the emotions specifically because the concoctors know the somnambulist sponges will sop it up like candy.
Just as hordes of people did not clamor for Detroit to make too-big inverted bathtubs that they could roll over.
The Three Lies: "This won't hurt a bit", "The check is in the mail" and "We're just giving the public what they want". Except that there actually are times when this won't hurt and the check really is in the mail.
NOBODY gives the public "what they want" over "what will sell". That whole "we're just giving the public what they want" lie is a crutch they use to avoid taking responsibility for their offering's obvious flaws.
The fact that people flock to this type of media says a lot more about them than it does about the media. It is not as though there are not other options out there, just that most do not want reason and discussion. They want talking points and hate.
Again, it's got nothing to do with "what they want" -- it's "what they'll accept" that's served up to them on Toiletvision, which has already indoctrinated them to sit down, shut up, and watch whatever turds we hand you.
Nor does the public have any avenue to make such a request anyway.
Emotion sells, and broadcasters know that well. Aside from that, the fact that one slanted talking head is overdrawing another slanted talking head doesn't mean people are "flocking" to either one; without bothering to look it up I have no doubt both Hannity's and Maddow's ratings are dwarfed by the big hitters of those other options in that same time slot. Sitcoms, dramas, people stranded on an island eating bugs, whatever they are.
