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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 02:52 PM Original message |
If MSM newscasts are for profit - how do they make money if nobody watches? |
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greymattermom (680 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
1. reality tv |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
2. If you do no research or investigation, your costs are very low. Thus you don't need many viewers |
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rinsd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
3. Plenty of people watch MSM news. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 03:01 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Not nearly as many as used to. But it's still a pretty good demographic [wealthy]... |
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rinsd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 03:04 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I would certainly agree that the demographic skews older. (nt) |
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rock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
4. Management doesn't make decisions on what makes |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
5. Use a bogus rating system |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
6. Because people buy the products that the ads on the program tells them to buy |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
7. It wouldn't. But people are still watching |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
8. They Are Traditionally Considered "Loss Leaders" |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
9. Fewer people are watching. That's why foreign reporting has gone down and they just... |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
12. I got an email from the Washington Post for a survey about newspapers |
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sicksicksick_N_tired (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
13. Why,...corporate sponsors, of course, via 'commercials'. Besides,... |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 06:30 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Four hours of TV doesn't mean people are watching the news... |
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Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
14. The corporate interests that they propagandize for. n/t |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-31-07 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
16. And isn't that the best question of the week. |
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