Absolutely - feel free. She does a good job of laying it all out, doesn't she?
There is a book that this reminds me of called Why TV Is Not Our Fault that traces the development of American television programming. Basically, it got hijacked by advertising very early - this is something that was really emphasized in my TV in American culture class this summer but, obviously, I'm still not really GETTING IT. The upshot, though, is that I think we might do better by ourselves to not forget that television is as much or more about finding a matrix in which to advertise than it is about selling advertisement to support an artistic endeavor. It's a thing that fans probably have to engage with, which SUCKS, IMO.
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There is a book that this reminds me of called Why TV Is Not Our Fault that traces the development of American television programming. Basically, it got hijacked by advertising very early - this is something that was really emphasized in my TV in American culture class this summer but, obviously, I'm still not really GETTING IT. The upshot, though, is that I think we might do better by ourselves to not forget that television is as much or more about finding a matrix in which to advertise than it is about selling advertisement to support an artistic endeavor. It's a thing that fans probably have to engage with, which SUCKS, IMO.