before rushing to fascism, take a deep breath and check out this report from the marketplace, especially sentence five:
"VIACOM PLANS A GAY CHANNEL, BUT THE RECEPTION ISN'T CLEAR
Two years ago, Viacom considered and abandoned a cable channel cable network aimed at gays. The company now considers that a big mistake, Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone thinks it would have cost $30 million to launch a channel that could now be worth $1 billion. So Viacom is looking at the possibility again. But it is uncertain how popular such a channel would be outside major cities (obviously the only place homosexuals watch TV). The driver, of course, is that advertisers are increasingly attracted to gays who spend nearly $500 billion a year. But not much is known about "gay" viewing habits, Nielsen has never studied them. Some prominent gay television executives and producers worry that gay viewers might resent narrowly focused programming choices as attempts to pigeonhole them. "The gay community is extremely diverse, [and] some would even say fragmented," says Kirk Iwanoski, vice president of marketing at the Sundance Channel.
"If you're going to go out there and make the claim that you're the gay network, you're going to have to cover multiple aspects of the gay community." [SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Joe Flint at joe.flint at wsj.com]
obviously, some of those aspects are no different from other "diverse' sectors of the marketplace...so fear not, if these forces prevail, we'll soon be able to purchase flavored strap-ons, mutli-colored vibrators and other nifty sex toys at, say, costco, if not walmart...and, when that groovy , sex liberated stuff is availbale in alabama as well, we can safely say the revolution is over, and watch whichever murderer is in the white house continue the global machinations of sex-conscious capital...
whoopeee....
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