November 17, 2005
This situation is almost beneath parody. A group of overpaid, under-worked, pseudo-intellectuals in designer suits sit in gleaming tower blocks, dreaming up shows of such staggering inanity they wouldn't challenge the intellectual powers of a hamster; Then another group of suits, suitably adorned with the prerequisite pony-tails, gleefully embark on countless hours of sycophantic toadying, persuading advertisers to display their products in these shows as part of the 'essential' placements that are seen as a vital and acceptable aspect of their precious new project, and the sub-textual rationale for its entire existence.
And when this latest example of intellectual bankruptcy mercifully crashes in unmourned flames, having enjoyed viewing figures that would be insufficient to populate a card game, yet another group of suits are summoned to the Boardroom altar to spend several hours in intense discussions, desperately trying to define why people won't watch??
Meanwhile, the Actors on whose shoulders is rested the unpalatable chore of persuading the great American public they're watching a real show, not a 40-minute love-fest for the Sponsors are given little reward; and even less respect. Thousands of Actors are suffering continued and unwarranted anonymity because the Networks are so dangerously obsessed with the desire for profits, they no longer feel it necessary to create entertaining shows that would require those Actors' indulgence.
And apparently they don't even care.
This situation is almost beneath parody. A group of overpaid, under-worked, pseudo-intellectuals in designer suits sit in gleaming tower blocks, dreaming up shows of such staggering inanity they wouldn't challenge the intellectual powers of a hamster; Then another group of suits, suitably adorned with the prerequisite pony-tails, gleefully embark on countless hours of sycophantic toadying, persuading advertisers to display their products in these shows as part of the 'essential' placements that are seen as a vital and acceptable aspect of their precious new project, and the sub-textual rationale for its entire existence.
And when this latest example of intellectual bankruptcy mercifully crashes in unmourned flames, having enjoyed viewing figures that would be insufficient to populate a card game, yet another group of suits are summoned to the Boardroom altar to spend several hours in intense discussions, desperately trying to define why people won't watch??
Meanwhile, the Actors on whose shoulders is rested the unpalatable chore of persuading the great American public they're watching a real show, not a 40-minute love-fest for the Sponsors are given little reward; and even less respect. Thousands of Actors are suffering continued and unwarranted anonymity because the Networks are so dangerously obsessed with the desire for profits, they no longer feel it necessary to create entertaining shows that would require those Actors' indulgence.
And apparently they don't even care.
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