[lbo-talk] Oil, Conspiracy Theory, and F 9/11

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Thu Jul 8 15:38:23 PDT 2004


Dennis Redmond wrote:\\

It's true that Leftists often forget that Hollywood is a small (and often


>surprisingly progressive) piece of a very complicated and very
>multinational media landscape. The real money is in advertising -- last
>year, the US ad market was $120 billion, I think, or 1.1% of US GDP. (Half
>of that was in print advertising, incidentally, proving that the death of
>the text is highly exaggerated). That's more than ten times larger than
>total US box office revenues in 2003, which were about $10 billion.
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But remember and repeat... that $120 billion does not mean that Americans are brainwashed...no, it doesn't; no, it doesn't....

Joanna


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