Re: AMC: Temporary recast (no spoiler space)

Aisling Willow Grey <aisling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:18:33 -0500, Chad Hutchinson wrote
> (in article <1h9s7nk.l9ja12awg8l0N%chad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>
> > Donna B <shallotpeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> In rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:52:06 GMT in Msg.#
> >> <1h9rv11.1cvx0ty1esu5nuN%chad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >> chad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Chad Hutchinson) wrote:
> >>
> >>> Donna B <shallotpeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Basically, though, NBC couldn't find anyone to advertise on the show.
> >>>> So, if you want to go with 'ground we've gone over before', in this
> >>>> instance the more important issue *is* that advertisers were driven
> >>>> away, out of fear. And, that happened first. Then, when the show was
> >>>> already in trouble because of that, ratings began to decline instead
> >>>> of either remain the same or increase.
> >>>
> >>> Advertisers were driven away out of fear of WHAT?
> >>
> >> Out of fear of controversy & that the extremists will mobilize enough
> >> people in these crazy times to do damage to them economically, of
> >> course.
> >>
> >>> That a tiny lunatic fringe wouldn't buy their products? Or that a
> >>> broader base of vocal people wouldn't buy their products,
> >>
> >> Not even about buying, just about the controversy. Advertisers today
> >> are very fearfully conservative. And, they have been for several years
> >> now with that growing every year.
> >>
> >> Here's an example: Major advertiser, print media, moratorium on any of
> >> their ad placements being on a page within 2 pages of the word
> >> 'cancer'. Wouldn't matter if it was a good story about cancer, or a bad
> >> story, or that it is a clinical term & we should be long beyond the
> >> days when the whispering of the C word meant cancer & you didn't want
> >> to say it for ... fear. Period.
> >>
> >>> and there was such a small viewership that there was no one to make up
> >>> the difference?
> >>
> >> Sorry, you lost me.
> >
> > The idea is that if there are enough people who watch the show and are
> > potential consumers, the sponsors tend to stay in. Think about how beer
> > is advertised. Most religious conservatives wouldn't approve of scantily
> > clad models selling beer. Yet beer has been sold this way for years, and
> > will continue to be, no matter how offensive it is to some people.
> > Likewise for Hooter restaurant. Why? Because it doesn't matter who is
> > offended if there are enough people who are drawn by the ads and will
> > buy the product. And apparently, beer drinkers do. <<
>
> I think that where you're wrong is your assumption that the religious right
> has an objection to beer and heterosexual sexuality (i.e. heterosexual men
> ogling scantily-clad heterosexual women).

Maybe we define religious right differently. I'm definitely thinking of
a group of people might object to beer and WOULD object to ogling
scantily clad women.

You apparently think of hypocrisy as intrinsic to the religious right. I
don't. It's not that there isn't hypocrisy there; I'm just not convinced
it's more prevalent there than among other types of people.
.

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