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fandomsecrets2013-03-07 06:46 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-03-07 06:46 pm
[ SECRET POST #2256 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2256 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[The Most Popular Girls In School]
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[Rust and Bone]
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[My Mad Fat Diary]
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[Sailor Moon]
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[Harvest Moon: A New Beginning]
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[American Horror Story Asylum]
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[Homestuck]
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[DC Comics]
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 021 secrets from Secret Submission Post #322.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: OP
Reality TV shows are dominating American TV not because they are good or even necessarily because they get a lot of viewers (and thus advertising sponsorship). It's just much cheaper to produce. So you can have a Reality TV show that doesn't get much view up against a really good not-reality show with a lot of viewers and still have the network lean towards the former because even with less viewers, it costs less to produce and so is ultimately more profitable for the network.
Add on top that "personality" TV shows (following specific people around just because) tend to also have an easier time of advertising, because the "actors"/subjects/what-the-fuck-do-you-even-call-them end up in the news a lot, but more importantly news groups will cover them a lot, often with little or no, uh, "incentive" from the networks. So less money spent on advertising = even less cost for "making" the show.
One other thing adding to the vicious feedback cycle, specifically in America, is that the kind of people who want more higher-quality or "intellectual" entertainment have no problem flocking to other countries, which often get a little leeway due to things like national support or whatever (i.e. BBC in Britain) and thus aren't plagued as badly by this problem. This means an even larger portion of the "American audience" for the American shows are the kind of people looking for the more mindless entertainment. So the network produces more stupid stuff, more people seek out entertainment in other sources, even more of the people "left behind" are seeking mindless entertainment, so the network produces even stupider things. Even the people who "left" will often only come back when specifically looking for mindless crap - when they want more higher-minded stuff, they look outside the country, when they want to just veg they look to American media, and this just exacerbates the feedback cycle.