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They're different words which draw different contrasts. A citizen is a normal person in contrast to the military (and unfortunately, lately the police). A con
by aninhumer 10y ago
They're different words which draw different contrasts.
A citizen is a normal person in contrast to the military (and unfortunately, lately the police).
A consumer is a normal person in contrast to manufacturers/media companies.
- skolsuper 10y agoI think you're confusing "citizen" with "civilian" there, although I agree neither are the same thing or were ever used in the same way as "consumer". define 'citizen' - > a legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalized.
- aninhumer 10y ago>I think you're confusing "citizen" with "civilian" Oh indeed. Not sure how that happened. In any case, my point is that the words are used in different contexts to emphasise different things. People don't talk about "citizens" in the context of the media market, because legal nationality isn't really relevant to the topic.
- VLM 10y agoIts a double plus ungood badthink to point out that X% of the population watching TV show "Y" in the geographic boundaries of the USA are citizens of some other country, especial if they're the fraction that are here illegally. Better to just call them people, which is factually correct, implies they should have equal treatment, and is somewhat more relevant WRT the commercial nature of TV unless you're trying to use TV commercials to sell something that would appeal to people based strongly on nation of citizenship like Mexico flags or immigration lawyer or language learning products or similar.