Halftime surprise guest - some politics - was RE: [Rhodes22-list] STATUS

[Mark Kaynor]

Rik,

I agree. TiVo reported that Janet's "surprise guest star" was the most
watched rerun segment of the super bowl. It's all about the money - it IS
television, after all. And I like the "future profits" fine idea.
Unfortunately, I don't believe the gov't really wants to get serious about
limiting what's shown on TV.

At this point I could segue into the part about CBS and MTV being owned by
Viacom, who, along w/ Rupert Murdock managed to get congress to raise the
FCCs 35% market share cap to 39% so they could get in under the cap at their
current levels of ownership followed by a long rant about media ownership
and consolidation and information filtering, but I'll try to restrain
myself.

Instead, I'll just say www.moveon.org and
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/mediaconsol.html


Rummy,

I agree about the quality of the show, too. Fortunately, I missed a lot of
it as my 84 yr. old dad was channel surfing in an attempt to view a
moveon.org ad that CBS refused to air.

Mark

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Rummy,

Not sure I agree with you. Jackson/Timberlake will probably be selling CDs/
videos, etc. for months over this.....Millions of them. I think they
expected
to be in deep shit over this and added up the costs (fines, whatever) and
figured they'd still knock down a cool few million.

All this uproar over this is exactly what they wanted. If the Gov't was
smart,
the fine would be a LARGE percentage of the profits of future sales, not a
flat sum.

Rik


On 02/03/2004 03:14 pm, R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
> Mark,
> I don't think it worked for them. The e-mails to the NFL, CBS and the
> Federal Communications Commission have not been positive. I think there
> will be punishment for that little fiasco. Aside from the nudity, it was a
> really shitty show.
>
> Rummy
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