[lbo-talk] Re: religious right in power? sure...

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Mon Sep 13 21:13:08 PDT 2004


So long as the economy stays good, the zealots are going nowhere. But what will happen when it goes sour....and the weather gets nasty, and people get scared and hungry and some zealot comes round and says "you don't want to fight the nasty army, nooo, you want to kill the nasty queers and the nasty brown people etc. who are responsible for bringing god's wrath, etc."

Joanna

frank scott wrote:


>just a brief reminder as to what really runs this show, and why chucko
>is correct...market forces don't care what color the buyer is, or what
>sexuality is favored, or what kind of dog or cat you love or anything
>else, as long as you got the money to affrim the market, which is what
>affirmative action is all about...
>fs
>
>"Two years ago, Viacom considered and abandoned at 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]
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