Law in Contemporary Society

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 Perhaps most telling of the theses in this set of books is the review's title - "Talking Back to Prozac." Our relationship to these mind-numbing drugs should be not a monologue in which one is talked to or at as may be the case with advertisements and other unresponsive communicators generally, but rather a dialogue in which we retain our voice.

-- JesseCreed - 22 Jan 2008

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Joey's point about missing HBO reminded me of a simple fact about television revenues. Broadcast television derives all its profits from product placing and advertising. Cable stations profit from advertising and per subscriber rates charged to cable providers. Finally, premium cable stations (HBO, Showtime etc.) get almost the entirety of its profits from per subscriber rates (there is some but I believe negligible product placement).

I think this relevant to understanding tv shows goals in their creation of content. It ranges from entertaining in order to get maximum viewers, premium cable stations, to getting the most advertisers possible, which broadcast stations do by getting maximum viewers and creating an attitude in viewers to be susceptible to marketing.

-- JulianBaez - 22 Jan 2008

 
 
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