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Thank you for clarifying. I now understand your statement meant something like "Netflix content has a narrower ideological range than the ideological range of

Thank you for clarifying. I now understand your statement meant something like "Netflix content has a narrower ideological range than the ideological range of the whole population" I recognise why you think this is an important claim here, but I don't think it is a useful comparison - no content provider can provide for the complete diversity of 7 billion people: it's not a fair comparison. A content provider can only make decisions within the resources that they have. Meanwhile, I was saying "Netflix content has a broader ideological range [than equivalent TV networks and content providers]". By picking those two shows, I was identifying that Netflix does not exclude people who were previously satisfied with that narrower range of content.

JackCh 8y ago
Netflix is no longer competing with traditional television, they're competing with a user-driver modern web. Youtube doesn't allow all kinds of content but even so it has orders of magnitude more coverage than netflix. And for the content you won't find on youtube, it's usually pretty easy to find it on other sites. I think this is a problem for Netflix that is only going to get worse as the older generations that were primed by traditional television become less economically relevant and new generations of "internet natives" come in. Personally if I'm going to sit down and passively consume media, I usually like it to be about people making things, ideally with constrained resources. Preferably nonfiction. At any point in time Netflix may have a handful of documentaries that fit the bill, but compared to a platform like youtube it's basically nothing.