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<blockquote data-quote="cotjones" data-source="post: 6653412" data-attributes="member: 573988">This is just ignorant.In a Major Corporation. A thousand dolar loss is a huge deal that has the potential to get people fired.In the entertainment industry, those losses are in the millions and the only reason it happens is because there is no good way to stop it.Sure the industry is not desolate, but keep up the free-marketing bullshit and there won&#039;t be any entertainment industry left.Take TV for example. In the pre- &quot;reality TV&quot; era. You had talented actors being paid well and producing great shows. Well with the rise of these MTV and VH1 reality shows, major networks started catering to the call for cheap to produce entertainment.Why pay a cast of 5 well-known actors 100,000 per episode, when 10 people will sell their freakin soul to be on TV for the chance to win 500,000.And then we evolve from game-show Reality TV to shows about people no one cares about. Camera men literally follow some loser around and the &quot;oh so soft&quot; young minds of America&#039;s magnificent future are led like cattle to the slaughter to believe anything they see on TV is the &quot;real world.&quot; (give me a freakin break.)And now the profits of the entertainment and TV industry are cut to fractions of what they once were.I mean seriously, How many bachlorette spin offs are we going to stomach before we realize how fvcking stupid they are. It&#039;s sad that this shit passes for quality programming.And you people wonder why the world is heading down the shit hole? Media/TV influences the average American life more than any other factor.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cotjones, post: 6653412, member: 573988"] This is just ignorant. In a Major Corporation. A thousand dolar loss is a huge deal that has the potential to get people fired. In the entertainment industry, those losses are in the millions and the only reason it happens is because there is no good way to stop it. Sure the industry is not desolate, but keep up the free-marketing bullshit and there won't be any entertainment industry left. Take TV for example. In the pre- "reality TV" era. You had talented actors being paid well and producing great shows. Well with the rise of these MTV and VH1 reality shows, major networks started catering to the call for cheap to produce entertainment. Why pay a cast of 5 well-known actors 100,000 per episode, when 10 people will sell their freakin soul to be on TV for the chance to win 500,000. And then we evolve from game-show Reality TV to shows about people no one cares about. Camera men literally follow some loser around and the "oh so soft" young minds of America's magnificent future are led like cattle to the slaughter to believe anything they see on TV is the "real world." (give me a freakin break.) And now the profits of the entertainment and TV industry are cut to fractions of what they once were. I mean seriously, How many bachlorette spin offs are we going to stomach before we realize how fvcking stupid they are. It's sad that this shit passes for quality programming. And you people wonder why the world is heading down the shit hole? Media/TV influences the average American life more than any other factor. [/QUOTE]

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