> When people consume from.. options provided, the media giants.. [say] they.. [satisfy] audience demand.. the offerings [are] imbecilic.. because the people are morons.. But.. there is no proof that.. [the] range of choices conforms to something innate to the audience.
#RobertMcChesney in #CorporateMedia and the #ThreatToDemocracy p.50
There was a Dinosaurs(?) show that dealt with the limits of TV? The crane operator went from too stupid to too activating and had to quit producing.
> "We are told that this is what the public wants," #AlbertCamus observed in a 1944 newspaper article on #MediaEthics. "No. This is not what the public wants. This is what the public has been taught to want... which isn't the same thing." #ScottSherman provided this quotation from the French newspaper #Combat to #RobertMcChesney