[MD] Intellectual activity

[Khaled Alkotob]

Once again you fail to see the bigger picture.

The BIG money platt. The studios and TV stations get. The multimillion
dollars contracts the hosts of the show command. 
That's what i am talking about and not the few pesos that may get thrown
in the direction of the toothless inbred guests of the show.

Platt
I understand your frustration and anger and concern for the social
decline.

I am too my friend. It really bothers.
In the end we both like to see the west, and especially America return to
its golden age. 1954-1958. It's the causes we seem to disagree on.

then you ask the question about the free market.

While you may look at Nike and defend their practice of going oversees as
a need to stay in business, I see the problem not as a labor and cost
issue but as an overpaid paid athlete/celebrity paid $10 million a year
to promote their product. And that is something that no one can regulate.

We both rather not see springer on TV, I say it's driven by the $$$ that
fuel the hosts, studio exec and the dumming down of the audience in
general buy the media ( Big Corp) that has zero social responsibility and
is only concerned with the bottom line. If all the stations offered PBS
quality programing ( yes you can broadcast NASCAR while giving it
quality) the Quality of the  audience will eventually move up.


Khaled


[Khaled earlier]
> > So Platt, how is povich and springer products differ from those
> > Wall-Mart dolls out every day? Both substandard wouldn't  you say? 
> " Both driven by the Mercantile attitude?

[Plat]
> Following the money as you suggest makes you wonder how the audience 
>  for Povich and Springer, much less the participants, got their 
> money. I  suspect a lot of it came from redistribution of income under
the 
> Marxist policy of from each according to his ability, to each 
> according  to his needs. As for Walmart, I shop there regularly and
haven't 
> found  the products they offer necessarily substandard. A box of
Wheaties 
> at  Walmart is just as good as a box of Wheaties at the more expensive 
> Harris Teeter supermarket or whatever your local upscale grocery 
> store  happens to be. 
> 
> Anyway, what would you suggest as an alternative to the free market?
> 
> Platt