Reply #62: Held back in the K&R - I didn't get online

[truedelphi]

For a few days. (Gueess you can't K&R if it's a discussion that has been around more than 24 hours)

Please keep this discussed.

I was watching "Write and Wrong" last night on the Women's Channel

It's about how an older (age 45?) woman script writer cannot find work.

It started me thinking - is it any wonder that the TV networks only feature young people? How better to make those who are struggling in their fifties than to present the subtle message at all times, 24/7, that those over 29 years old are obsolete.

Youth is right. It is visible.
Age is wrong. It is invisible.
An article in the New Yorker magazine sometime ago reported that it is NOT TRUE that the younger demographic of 18 to 34 buys more and/or switches brands more. There is absolutely no discernible, economic reason that television focuses on younger people.

But it surely helps older people feel powerless.