From: mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz)
Subject: Liberal media (was Re: What Liberals have done to us already, not what t)
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 11:17:44 GMT

christopher stone (cstone@husc8.harvard.edu) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan8.211531.6461@csus.edu> chaneysa@nextnet.ccs.csus.edu (Thoughtcrime Convict #12273-101) writes:
: >Do you know what made my blood boil on the night of November 3rd, 1992?
: >
: >* All those years of being told to accept the Christian-bashing,
: >male-bashing, conservative-hating, politically correct bigoted sludge
: >that passes for entertainment.
: 
: Yep, you uncovered the conspiracy... "Star Trek," "MASH," "All in the
: Family" and so on were really not popular shows; they were just marketed
: to annoy conservatives.  And we all know how pro-feminist "Married with
: Children" is.  Seriously, you claim that liberals are minority, but
: that TV shows are aimed at liberals; how then do networks turn a 
: profit (which is what they're interested in)?
: 

You forgot Leave it to Beaver, Dick Van Dyke, Patty Duke, Dragnet, Superman,
Batman, Andy Griffith, Beverly Hillbillies, and countless other enormously
popular shows that promoted healthy values.  

As for MASH, what kind of image of the military do you think its message
intended to leave?  Those who were in the military because they cared about 
the military were all depicted as idiots, sex maniacs, incompetents, and the
like.  And if Anita Hill worked for Hawkeye Pierce's practice, she'd have
DAILY harassment complaints...

The Jeffersons, a spinoff of All in the Family, depicted every single white
person who ever appeared as a blithering idiot.  Married with Children?
You couldn't pick a worse example.  Let's start with child abuse and go
from there...

Star Trek?  It has a lot of problems, too.  It suggests that in the future,
abortion will be globally accepted as tolerable.  It is anti-religion because
it suggests in many shows that God is just some super alien, and a deranged
one at that, who is easily defeated by mere mortals.

As for profitability, Michael Medeved, co-host of sneak prevues wrote a
book about hollywood.  In it, he claims that G rated movies do significantly
better at the box office, even in the 80's, yet Hollywood increased its
output of R rated movies from 40% of all made to 61% of all made during the
80s.  You know the kind of movies...  Devil worship, sexual explicitness,
and high-tech violence.  He also points out that ~27,000 scripts were
submitted to hollywood in 1992, and ~550 were made.

As for aiming for a minority audience, it is clear that it is profitable
enough.

According to my 1992 Universal Almanac, 95% of american homes have a TV.
And that TV is turned on for 6 hours.  Some of us care enough about
watching what kind of shows their kids watch.  But some of us are not
around for those 6 hours.

And if you think that TV has little/no propaganda/brainwashing value, then
answer these two simple questions.  First, why do advertisers spend huge
amounts of money to repeat the same message over and over again?  And
why did they take tobacco advertising off of TV and Radio?

We haven't even gotten to NEWS coverage, which is just as bad.

As for conspiracy...  TV and Film media industries are extremely hard to
break into.  There are only 7 major film studios in hollywood.  Until
recent years, they were privately held/owned.  And it is definately
and all/old boy network, where the same people continuously get work,
and it is hard for minorities to break in.  And if you don't think the
"best boy" of every film isn't in a labor union, think again.

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