Posted
4:59 PM
by Gene
Jeannette Walls also links to
this article about Rupert's sleazy
Joe Millionaire phenomenon. Yes, the networks are culpable for such trash under federal law and even higher laws, but they answer to one audience, and one audience only:
their sponsors.
I repeat: Corporate America does not know what it sponsors, and it doesn't care, and it's set itself up so it won't have to care.