Steeeeee-rike!

[bcholmes]

>>snort<< The only people I saw objecting to the term [strike] wouldn't know a collective bargaining agreement if one crawled into their sinuses and took a shit.

— The love of my life

My heart goes fookin' pitter-pat.

I was commenting to Siobhan about how there's a lot of analysis of the business of television -- about what constitutes "content" and what constitutes "fill" and what the product of television is -- that seems to be mostly ignored in the conversation about yesterday's strike.

Comments

[erik]

The product of television? That's easy if you observe the universal rule: follow the money.

Who pays TV's bills? Advertisers.
What are the advertisers buying, then? Views. Viewers. Interested eyeballs.
What is the product of television? You are.

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

The love of your life is gezackly correct.

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

It's interesting how they're able to sneak stuff past people by calling us "consumers".

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

I came across one poster on a friend's journal loudly touting the futility of that action by the fact that he (and/or friends) had organised extra posts on http://community.livejournal.com/statements - the postings for the 21st went from an average of 1700 to over 11,000 - and how that would effectively cancel the strike.

Think they missed the point entirely.