Wouldn’t want private entities spreading their wealth to people who are morally undeserving because…reasons.

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Reading now. K, not R, article, yes?

Free marketeers always get upset with the free market when markets reward behavior they don’t approve of.

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Yes that’s the one.

Good read. Makes sense of Japan.

Does it mean we can get shows as jaw droppingly good as Lovecraft Country and Watchmen on network TV? If so I’m down.

I remember back in the late 2000s the networks and studios were all saying, “Golly gee we’d love to hire black actors but there just aren’t enough of them” while over on HBO literally like seventy five black actors were killing it on The Wire.

One of the greatest pieces of television ever made.

And that was before the gold age of television which we are in right now.

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In a lot of ways The Wire created the current golden age of TV, with intensely serial storytelling that only built up to a climax at the end of the season.

And I know it’s cliched now to talk about how great the show is but I was one of the people begging mother ■■■■■■■ to watch it in like 2003 and they just wouldn’t.

I don’t think that you get Breaking Bad without The Wire.

For all of it’s flaws, Lost ushered in a different type of television also. One where they will take more risks with big money.

Nobody has to watch shows they don’t like.
There is no money in shows people don’t watch.
Disney has and will go where the money leads them.

I was really hoping you’d weigh in on this thread, and your posts haven’t disappointed. Ultimately, this is a business, and ABC has every right to control their own content if they’re footing production budgets. I’m honestly rethinking some of my preconceptions while reading this thread.

It’s their money and studios. They can do with it what they want. Disney is a HUGE company and they want to experiment with AA. Okay then.

This has nothing to do with the government.