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How accurately does TV media represent the desires of the people?

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nzlockie
By nzlockie | Feb 5 2014 9:12 AM
By Media I'm including all media - not just news media.

This has come up in a last couple of debates I've been involved in and it concerns me a little that if the media DOES speak for the people, then we might be in worse shape than I thought. Personally, I'd like to believe that the media doesn't speak for the AVERAGE, they are more accurately speaking for the guy slightly BELOW average.

Obviously I don't have a lot to base that on bar my hopes and dreams.

On a completely unrelated note, the other day we had different versions of "the Batchelor" screening on two channels at the same time, with "Beauty and the Geek" on a third. We only have 5 channels in NZ and one of them is permanently full of cooking shows.
Pinkie
By Pinkie | Feb 5 2014 9:23 AM
nzlockie: Miley Cyrus.
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nzlockie
By nzlockie | Feb 5 2014 10:00 AM
Pinkie: exactly.
Pinkie
By Pinkie | Feb 5 2014 12:34 PM
nzlockie: Yeah... :/
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admin
By admin | Feb 5 2014 7:01 PM
nzlockie: There's a cooking show channel now!?

To be honest I've never seen many programmes representing desires. And when I have it's been very overt what audience they're talking about, like when you laugh at people on Judge Judy or Jeremy Kyle. Then there's docos, the news, maybe some kids shows when I was a kid, and you have my complete TV watching life.

But it's always interesting what kind of people there are out there. One of my first jobs I was working I had a discussion with my co-workers about our dream jobs. Two thirds of them had a life ambition of being a "retail sales assistant". No joke.
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Pinkie
By Pinkie | Feb 6 2014 7:39 AM
admin: We have 500+ channels most of the ones in the 400's are lesbian porn channels.
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