• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    the current production model of everything having to pass through focus groups, committees, and wanker consultants

    Sorry… you think that’s current? It’s always been that way.

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      7 months ago

      American television was always known for production interference, but it was mostly from advertisers, bored executives, and censors. Not even close to the same thing, widespread use of focus testing and demographic committees and having 12 different sensitivity consultants is all relatively modern, and that’s on top of most of the traditional interference.

      And you in all likelihood knew all this, but chose to waste our time anyway.

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        7 months ago

        That is absolute nonsense. And I do know this because I worked in the entertainment industry for over 10 years. Did you?

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          7 months ago

          Ignoring the my-uncle-works-for-microsoft flex for a moment, are you trying to pretend we’re talking about changes that occurred in the last 10 years? Jerry was working in television 35 years ago, and is talking about programmes even prior to that. You probably weren’t even born then.

          It didn’t take long for Lemmy to turn into a carbon copy of reddit, I barely post here and you’re like the third dude in the last day to pull the same sleight of hand by trying to change the argument.