And if I'm good at it, I should be doing it now, without having to pay all my dues and tunnel the corporate sewer system to corporate popular slather. Thought pieces are Pieces of listening that consist of thoughts and sound painting or setting of scenario in the background. Actually these recordings are conversations that in most cases I have with people, where the discussion raises good points, points worth developing, and hopes even. Because we think, and thinking makes us free. But people don't hear many free thoughts any more.
Television is complete formula.
Sure there are several formulas, but within each one there is a unifying order and logic that forbids magic and surprise, and the raising of those lurky things called thoughts. Movies are just as bad if not worse. Hollywood has the mass consumer audience on a hook, as collectively all the industries control them apparently. We're learning that once again newspapers are going the route of right wing fascism, and music is like playdough. The popular right controls mass consumer culture with one model.