Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that our greatest cultural legacy is now funded by, and revolves around, marketing rather than, say, private or ecclesiastic patronage, says much about our nation. It also often makes for a fascinating array of condensed packages of talented, carefully sculpted craft between the sitcoms and soaps. Just as content seeps out of the substance of entertainment, it winds up in advertising. Curious...
...currents of a cultural mainstream that is swinging away from them. The fact that media mainstream forces like Hollywood blockbuster action films--mere entertainment--have maneuvered so successfully in the public eye that they now must be addressed as a campaign issue is disturbing. Their content is hardly worthy...
Popular culture has long been derided for its failure to take artistic risks, but this summer marks a new low in the calculated deliberation of its bland content...
...recycled programming. Thus Disney buys Capital Cities/ABC; Viacom buys Paramount and launches UPN; and so on through the merger-mad '90s. "The best way to beat back competition," says Gary Arlen, founder of the research firm Arlen Communications, based in Bethesda, Maryland, "is to have your own content and make sure your vertical integration gets the FTC's approval." For Levin, it's so far, so good...
...Martha Pickerill: "The industry does not have a clear prescription for what educational programming is. It is hard to imagine that everyone in the TV industry will come to consensus on what standard to hold. TV networks fought a time requirement, and will probably not agree on a content requirement either." -->