Papageorgio
The Ultimate Winner
- May 18, 2010
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Nobody in commercial broadcasting has ever made a dime from being "the left "or "the right" or any other ideology. That ain't how money works.
Then why the bias?
Then why did you stop beating your wife?
You can figure this out with simple common sense. Commercial enterprises exist, by definition, to make money. HOW are you going to make money selling ideologies? Just give us an example.
Can't do it. See that?
Commercial broadcasting makes its money by selling ads, and it sells ads by capturing attention, and it captures attention by mining the emotions. That's exactly why "if it bleeds it leads" is a prime directive. It's exactly why fake wrestling, why onstage paternity tests and other soap operas, why naked people on an island forced to eat bugs, etc etc etc --- all exist. To hypnotize its victim so he's nice and malleable for the Viagra commercial. And another way to mine emotions is with the paranoia that a Fox Noise sells with its "scary black man" and "eeeebil liburruls" soap operas, whence comes this ridiculous mythology that reality is somehow "leftist" or "biased". They want you to buy that paranoia story, not because it's a true story but because IT KEEPS YOU COMING BACK. And the more you come back, the more bullshit they can sell you with commercials.
You, the viewer, are the pawn here. The useful idiot. They don't care whether it's political soap opera or naked people or onstage baby-daddy brawls that get your attention; they'll use anything that works. Even the Weather Channel, in what they call "prime time" runs programs not about what the actual weather is, but pseudo-documentaries about how an asteroid strike will wipe out the planet, or how Mrs. Irma Schwartz was trapped in a flood. Once again --- selling paranoia.
THAT is how they make money. It ain't by taking a political "side". It can't be. There's no money in that.
Then why does MSNBC continue to be a liberal ratings loser? I don’t watch your prime time TV, unless it’s a sport I like otherwise I turn it off. For comedy I come here and read posts, thanks for the laughs.
Number one, I don't have a "prime time TV" so don't attribute it my way. I don't have a TV at all. Of course I don't, since I already recognized what I just described as its purpose, and I have better things to do than pawn myself out.
Number two, I don't know what MSNBC's ratings are but presumably they're happy with them if they're working, and working on them if they're not --- just as the Weather Channel or QVC or anybody else. Ratings have one purpose and one purpose only, which is to set advertising rates. It's a simple raw number saying "here's how many eyeballs we can deliver for your product". As I am neither in the business of buying nor selling ads, it's irrelevant. And you and I wouldn't know what those ratings are anyway UNTIL we were in that business because it's a closely guarded and costly trade secret.
Apparently when one comes across a point that is so solid it can't be refuted, one marks it "funny".
Maybe I need to go look up what "funny" means.
Lotta wags on this board and others think broadcast "ratings" have something to do with "assent".
They do not.
You might want to go over your reply and see why I rated it funny.