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> I disagree - if content cannot survive without advertisement, then we're better off without it anyway. So radio and TV should have never existed?
by FalconSensei 4y ago
> I disagree - if content cannot survive without advertisement, then we're better off without it anyway.
So radio and TV should have never existed?
- mirntyfirty 4y agoI think he meant advertising plus all the tracking that goes on.
- FalconSensei 4y agothe phrase I quoted is followed by: > Non-tracking advertising is less bad than advertising, but it's still intrusive and not-called-for, just like all advertising. So yeah, they are against all forms of ads
- paskozdilar 4y agoIn the current form, yes.
- dredmorbius 4y agos/So/& commercial/ There are noncommercial models for broadcast media, and the fact that some countries ended up with the vast wasteland[1] that is commercially-supported broadcast television and radio isn't an inevitability. It was made to happen, by commercial interests. It could well have been different in the US, and still is in numerous other regions. See Robert W. McChesney's Telecommunications, mass media and democracy : the battle for control of U.S. broadcasting, 1928-35 (1995) https://www.worldcat.org/title/telecommunications-mass-media-and-democracy-the-battle-for-control-of-us-broadcasting-1928-35/oclc/477338214 https://www.worldcat.org/title/telecommunications-mass-media... https://archive.org/details/telecommunicatio00mcch https://archive.org/details/telecommunicatio00mcch https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=05E6FC47CE851CB143F1DD47B99D19AA https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=05E6FC47CE851CB143F1DD4... ________________________________ Notes: 1. FCC Commissioner Newton Minnow, 1961 https://vimeo.com/55481067 https://vimeo.com/55481067 https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-05-06/newton-minow-tv-vast-wasteland https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-05-06/newton-min...