Hence you see very specific audiences developed as products. The network nightly news is a perfect example of this. They have all developed an older audience to which the drug companies can sell drugs. Ideally they, the audience, are old and sickly.
Naïve critics complain that the TV network news is no good because only old people watch it. They go on to say it is dying because they cannot attract younger viewers. This is not true. These critics are know-nothings who should be ignored because they do not understand what is going on. Adding younger viewers to network news would cheapen the value of the audience to the real customers – the advertising drug companies.
The TV network news executives know exactly what they are doing. And, you should note, that it is in their best interest to keep you unhealthy at the behest of the drug-pedaling advertisers. Think about that for a minute. |
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