09-25-2008, 10:26 AM
Chesspiece_face "It's less a question of people finding things interesting and goes back to the blending of marketing and information based programing."
In other words, the customers of the media are the advertisers, and not the public? That may well be true, but it doesn't turn the public into innocent victims. There would be no commercials, if there was noone watching them. As long as you all keep buying every gadget that comes available, things won't change.
Consumers are more powerful then they realize. You don't even have to boycot a product completely, to make your wishes felt. If just 10% of all customers would buy only 10% less or elsewhere, a company would see its business go down by 1% already. That's quite a lot for the big ones, and certainly enough to make them rethink their strategies.
In other words, the customers of the media are the advertisers, and not the public? That may well be true, but it doesn't turn the public into innocent victims. There would be no commercials, if there was noone watching them. As long as you all keep buying every gadget that comes available, things won't change.
Consumers are more powerful then they realize. You don't even have to boycot a product completely, to make your wishes felt. If just 10% of all customers would buy only 10% less or elsewhere, a company would see its business go down by 1% already. That's quite a lot for the big ones, and certainly enough to make them rethink their strategies.