For 40 years the Big 3 networks were all left-wing. Cable news was created by socialist Ted Turner. Now that the rest of the lamestream media has abandoned all pretense of objectivity and shills for the DNC and Obama White House, people began tuning out. FOX earned its viewership.



>> ^packo:

yep, the left took over comedies (adult anyway, sitcoms majoritywise are pretty conservative, ie not hard to find them)
the right took over news
hmmmmmmm... and propoganda relates more to what? news or comedies?
this seems so very "Ignore the man behind the curtain" to me

yep, the left took over comedies (adult anyway, sitcoms majoritywise are pretty conservative, ie not hard to find them)

the right took over news

hmmmmmmm... and propoganda relates more to what? news or comedies?

this seems so very "Ignore the man behind the curtain" to me

Yet you use ad hominem attacks to deride the speaker. You, sir, are a hypocrite of the highest order.

GOOD DAY SIR.>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

Clearly you have your own issues with women to deal with. My guess is that you should learn a lot if you talked to one.
Ad hominem balderdash. I respect and honor all women far more than most - but JK voided any intellectual respect with her foolishness. She is foolish not because she's a woman, but because she's prejudiced toward others and treats them with disrespect on a far deeper level than any advertiser does. My attitude towards her is not because I'm a man - but because she's a hypocritical git. I rarely unload at a person as I did above, but this lowly cockroach deserves it 10 times over.
Not saying all ads are great. They're not. But the presumption that they are the primary motivating factor in creating societal mores is a canard. Ads do not create society. They reflect it. If we waved a magic wand and all ads vanished tomorrow, the bedrock of "what standard to people hold themselves to?" would not change one iota. Cram a bunch of average, plain folks into sitcoms and movies and the "ideal beauty" will still be what people look for.
And for this hypocritical sleaze to insult the character and nature of countless men and women because of her own insecurities, prejudices and cowardice? For money? There is no language fit to sufficiently convey just how low that is.

>> ^NetRunner:

You should take your own advice!
For example, what's something you've said often enough that it'd be your catchphrase if they made a sitcom about Videosift? "Ha ha statist idiots"?
You break all three rules every time you say that.
>> ^blankfist:
1. Try not to talk down to people when pushing your religious memorabilia. Others may misread your self-proclaimed brilliance as the unrestrained ego of a self-centered fuckhead.
2. Pick an appropriate time to work in the sale's pitch. Not every conversation or thread is the right moment to spread the gospel. You have to discriminate so you can seize the right moment to make the convert.
3. Make the conversion process a dialogue, not a monologue. Fun fact about people: they like to feel they're being engaged and not just talked at. Even though you may be right about everything because your bible says you are, you don't want others to think you're just a prickish, arrogant, insufferable, egomaniacal, self-important cocksucker who enjoys attacking those who challenge your unshakable, inerrant belief system.



I guess that would be true if I was selling something like DFT has been pushing the Shock Doctrine. But then again usually the statist idiot comment is on a video that has something to do with a failure of the statist system, so #2 is certainly not broken. Grasping at straws.

You two should go to another thread somewhere Obama needs defending and stroke each other off with comment upvotes. Run along, dearest statist idiot.

You should take your own advice!

For example, what's something you've said often enough that it'd be your catchphrase if they made a sitcom about Videosift? "Ha ha statist idiots"?

You break all three rules every time you say that.
>> ^blankfist:

1. Try not to talk down to people when pushing your religious memorabilia. Others may misread your self-proclaimed brilliance as the unrestrained ego of a self-centered fuckhead.
2. Pick an appropriate time to work in the sale's pitch. Not every conversation or thread is the right moment to spread the gospel. You have to discriminate so you can seize the right moment to make the convert.

3. Make the conversion process a dialogue, not a monologue. Fun fact about people: they like to feel they're being engaged and not just talked at. Even though you may be right about everything because your bible says you are, you don't want others to think you're just a prickish, arrogant, insufferable, egomaniacal, self-important cocksucker who enjoys attacking those who challenge your unshakable, inerrant belief system.

Clearly you have your own issues with women to deal with. My guess is that you should learn a lot if you talked to one.

Ad hominem balderdash. I respect and honor all women far more than most - but JK voided any intellectual respect with her foolishness. She is foolish not because she's a woman, but because she's prejudiced toward others and treats them with disrespect on a far deeper level than any advertiser does. My attitude towards her is not because I'm a man - but because she's a hypocritical git. I rarely unload at a person as I did above, but this lowly cockroach deserves it 10 times over.

Not saying all ads are great. They're not. But the presumption that they are the primary motivating factor in creating societal mores is a canard. Ads do not create society. They reflect it. If we waved a magic wand and all ads vanished tomorrow, the bedrock of "what standard to people hold themselves to?" would not change one iota. Cram a bunch of average, plain folks into sitcoms and movies and the "ideal beauty" will still be what people look for.

And for this hypocritical sleaze to insult the character and nature of countless men and women because of her own insecurities, prejudices and cowardice? For money? There is no language fit to sufficiently convey just how low that is.

I'm a little late to the party, but my $0.02 on this topic is that I think most feminist groups are focusing on the wrong things. It's not that advertising has such a relentlessly high standard on female beauty, it's that our culture seems to accept and reinforce people making judgments about women based on their appearance.

Right now, it's socially acceptable for women to hold high-paying jobs, or act in a professionally aggressive manner, but only if she's attractive. If you're plain, or god forbid, downright unattractive, you're just a bitch, possibly a "cast-iron" bitch if you attain a position of power, and assert that power in the aggressive way men are always encouraged to.

There's a heavily reinforced cultural undercurrent that a woman's worthiness as a person is tightly connected to her attractiveness. Part of that comes from the pervasiveness of female beauty in American media -- even the "ugly" women are beautiful (take Tina Fey on 30 Rock as a prime example), because actually plain or unattractive women aren't allowed to be cast as anything but totally unsympathetic bitches, or maybe some sort of lovable grandma character if she's grey haired and wrinkled.

But I think this particular screed is missing the point -- the issue isn't advertisements with their objectification (of EVERYTHING), with overt sexual imagery, and impossible standards of beauty, it's the way that gets carried over into all the other aspects of mass media. There are no plain female musicians rocketing up the top 40, no average looking female news reporters, no sitcom with a normal-looking female character, no dramas where the sharpest intellect is a unremarkable-looking woman in her 40's...that's the real issue, not what they're doing in the ad world.

Oh boy, this man gets paid $27m per year to star in an unfunny sitcom? I suspect that realisation drove him off the edge.
As someone said on twitter, who knew that employing a drug addict could be bad for your network sitcom?

10 seasons in a sitcom, and its the first time she's actually funny.

Apparently they're making it into an American sitcom. *promote

>> ^blankfist:

Let me try my top 21 predictions for the next decade! A lot of this will be US centric.
1. HDTV dimensions will increased from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160.
2. Screens will be increased to print pixel depths. 300dpi is only the beginning.
3. An affordable, flexible LCD material will change the tech and advertising world. Maybe the material can be cut to fit any size?
4. The war in Iraq will be over. But the occupation will last for decades. Other wars in the Middle East will continue.
5. Sarah Palin will never be President.
6. The US Deficit will grow to a historical high. As the Dollar and the Renminbi compete for world currency a new Cold War will be declared.
7. Top 40 music will suck.
8. The browser will be integrated as part of the OS and no longer treated as just software. Your work software (IDEs, Microsoft Word, Excel, etc.) will be treated as online plug-ins, savable (with versioning) in the cloud.
9. Electricity will be wireless.
10. Reality Shows will be the new sitcom. Again.
11. China's working class will stage small worker union revolts, but the scale and number will be dramatically inflated by the media.
12. Tommy Lee Jones, Adam Ant, Joel Coen, Matt Groening, Bill Clinton, Lorne Michaels, Sam Elliot, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Steve Jobs and Roy Scheider. One of them will probably pass away.
13. Google will acquire Facebook.
14. Apple's stock will drop if Jobs passes away. They'll try to embody the innovate spirit of Jobs, but they'll miss the mark and stick to just updating the current products like iPod, iPhone, Macbooks, etc.
15. There will be an assassination attempt on a Congressman. Congress will pass into law the Vigilant Act that declares DC to "be at war". As a result no civilians except current residents are permitted to enter. Under the Act any type of search and seizure in DC is legal. To counteract the bad press, the America Museum is opened in Virginia.
16. GM will file for bankruptcy.
17. Like the huge increase in gas prices as become part of day for the US, the people will grow accustomed to the high rate of unemployment. Politicians will no longer talk about gas prices or unemployment.
18. Marijuana is legalized in three states. It's legalized for medicinal use in seventeen states.
19. Autism is linked to the artificial sweetener, Aspartame.
20. Most internet enabled TVs and projectors become equipped with a'la carte system of channel ordering. So you only buy what channels you want streamed to your tv.
21. A new phone technology is developed that works a lot like bit torrent. The phone's signal piggy backs off other phones in the area, and the more phones in an area the better the signal. Most people, however, turn this feature off because it's rumored to be a security weakness.


To answer a select few points:

1. I thought 4k displays would be up next? (4096×3072; as a coder I hate widescreens. I need horizontal screen real estate).
3. This will happen sooner than we'd like
7. When did it not?
9. See 3.
Addendum to 21: We will see a surge of private networks, linked by VPNs and shared by friends; mostly done by people trying to run away from all the crass advertisements and data gathering schemes in the net today.

Let me try my top 21 predictions for the next decade! A lot of this will be US centric.

1. HDTV dimensions will increased from 1920x1080 to 3840x2160.

2. Screens will be increased to print pixel depths. 300dpi is only the beginning.

3. An affordable, flexible LCD material will change the tech and advertising world. Maybe the material can be cut to fit any size?

4. The war in Iraq will be over. But the occupation will last for decades. Other wars in the Middle East will continue.

5. Sarah Palin will never be President.

6. The US Deficit will grow to a historical high. As the Dollar and the Renminbi compete for world currency a new Cold War will be declared.

7. Top 40 music will suck.

8. The browser will be integrated as part of the OS and no longer treated as just software. Your work software (IDEs, Microsoft Word, Excel, etc.) will be treated as online plug-ins, savable (with versioning) in the cloud.

9. Electricity will be wireless.

10. Reality Shows will be the new sitcom. Again.

11. China's working class will stage small worker union revolts, but the scale and number will be dramatically inflated by the media.

12. Tommy Lee Jones, Adam Ant, Joel Coen, Matt Groening, Bill Clinton, Lorne Michaels, Sam Elliot, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Steve Jobs and Roy Scheider. One of them will probably pass away.

13. Google will acquire Facebook.

14. Apple's stock will drop if Jobs passes away. They'll try to embody the innovate spirit of Jobs, but they'll miss the mark and stick to just updating the current products like iPod, iPhone, Macbooks, etc.

15. There will be an assassination attempt on a Congressman. Congress will pass into law the Vigilant Act that declares DC to "be at war". As a result no civilians except current residents are permitted to enter. Under the Act any type of search and seizure in DC is legal. To counteract the bad press, the America Museum is opened in Virginia.

16. GM will file for bankruptcy.

17. Like the huge increase in gas prices as become part of day for the US, the people will grow accustomed to the high rate of unemployment. Politicians will no longer talk about gas prices or unemployment.

18. Marijuana is legalized in three states. It's legalized for medicinal use in seventeen states.

19. Autism is linked to the artificial sweetener, Aspartame.

20. Most internet enabled TVs and projectors become equipped with a'la carte system of channel ordering. So you only buy what channels you want streamed to your tv.

21. A new phone technology is developed that works a lot like bit torrent. The phone's signal piggy backs off other phones in the area, and the more phones in an area the better the signal. Most people, however, turn this feature off because it's rumored to be a security weakness.

via wikiped 'ier "A laugh track (a.k.a. canned laughter, laughter soundtrack, laughter track, LFN [laughter from nowhere], laugh in a can, laughing audience, fake laughter) is a separate soundtrack invented by Charles "Charley" Douglass, with the artificial sound of audience laughter, made to be inserted into TV comedy shows and sitcoms. The first American television show to incorporate a laugh track was the American sitcom The Hank McCune Show in 1950. "

Five or ten years ago, it seemed like we were moving away from that direction. Sitcoms like Malcom in the Middle and Arrested Development didn't have laugh tracks, and they were much better for it (they also weren't produced like videotaped stage plays, which helped). But no, back to the bottom of the barrel for us.
>> ^rychan:

The scenario is somewhat amusing, but the writing and canned laughter is freaking terrible. And don't give me that live studio audience BS.

hahahaha... The chemistry between these two is perfect. Give them a sitcom!