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NPR's war on Low Power FM: the laws of physics vs. politics
Power corrupts even NPR, apparently. Now, I can understand not wanting to provide financial/technical assistance to the low power stations -- but, damnit, if they were there first, and you want to come into their broadcast territory, that's your problem, not the problem who was there first.
Listed under 'peeves' because I was raised to believe that there is good and evil in this world; but, the reality seems to be while there is 'good' and 'evil' on an individual basis, companies act completely indifferently. And, I think this might be the segue to a post I've been wanting to write for quite a while, I've just never had an excuse to do so until now.
We'll see if I write the post after lunch or not. (8-) Tags: peeves, politics - general
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One of the marketing formulas for any show is to try and create this aura of 'badness' around it. You pick a bunch of things that fascinate the dark side of people's souls, and you highlight those, banking on the 'car crash effect' -- you know you shouldn't look, but you can't tear your eyes away, and so you watch. And when you list such things, you always leave the worst for last, to help build the tension, and then hit the target audience with the punchline.
So, when I heard this on an ad on the Discovery channel, trying to make a documentary about the Philosopher's Stone exciting to viewers, I did a massive double take. The critical line of the ad went: "The story of the Philosopher's Stone is filled with dark tales: fraud, torture... and wife-swapping. *musically dark crescendo*"
The implication of this ad if it follows the formula? There must be somebody affiliated with Discovery or one of its ad agencies, who believes there is a significant portion of its target audience that believes wife-swapping must be as heinous, or even worse, then fraud and torture. This (among other things I've noticed on Discovery over the past several years) really makes me wonder just what the hell those guys are smoking these days.
And if there are truly significant numbers of people out there who truly believe that wife-swapping is worse than fraud and torture, then let's just freaking blow the world up now and let God start over again. If people believe consensual sex between adults is worse than non-consensual physical violence (even if that type of consensual sex is the type of consent you would never give), then we, as a civilization, are truly too freaking stupid to live.
Sheesh... Tags: peeves
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