“The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling boot. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software.” WorldAudienceTelevisionProductsHugeElementsPaperAnxietyNewsVoteMarketingWidePsychologicalMagazinesConsumersLandscapeZoneSoftwareCashBootsPassiveTechnologicalBallotsPresent DayElectorateReadershipWeaponryOpportunistPolling Author:J. G. Ballard
“in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.” DoeAudienceTelevisionProductsNewsProgramConsumersAdvertisers Book:And so it goes Source: And so it goes
“It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this' or blah blah. But there's a kind of laziness as a consumer of entertainment, I think, to wish that something was repeating itself and doing the same thing. But to each their own, and I do it all the time. I've dropped television shows as a viewer.” ThinkingKindShowsWishTelevisionEntertainmentConsumersLazinessViewersTelevision ShowsPrerogativeBlah Author:Justin Kirk
“I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years.” YearsHas BeensFansTelevisionDramaMajorsSeriesConsumersSerialsAdmirerHbo Author:Todd Haynes
“Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values rule the culture. Television is successfully using a lot of those same techniques but using them for a very different agenda, which is to sort of create an ethos and please people and to sell products to consumers.” PeopleDifferentSelfWould BeValuesCultureStuffBlackTelevisionProductsPleaseSafeSellsIncludingTechniqueConsumersIronyShockAgendasCynicismEthosBlack Humor Author:David Foster Wallace
“Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow’s marketer will first try to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process.” TryingFirstsShowsProcessTelevisionTomorrowGainsLettersPhonesSellingConsumersConsentPhone CallsTelevision ShowsMarketersInterrupting Author:Seth
“Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.” MadeFantasyTelevisionConsumersHabitualSynthetic Book:Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills Source: Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills
“Actually, television tells you to take dope. It tells you to destroy the human race really, by first having more consumers and then consuming more poison and then making the whole planet uninhabitable.” FirstsHumansWholeRaceTelevisionPlanetsConsumersHuman RacePoisonConsumingDope Author:James Purdy
“Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television.” WellsImportantUseTelevisionFairsConsumersInnovatorsVcr Author:Joe Kraus
“I mean, a lot of people don't realize it, but fashion is one of the most racial industries left out there now. Radio and music aren't. Television and movies aren't. Even commercials now are showing interracial couples. You see a lot of diversity in TV shows, but you don't see that in fashion. You think there would be some, because the consumer is of all colors and all shades. But you don't see that in fashion.” PeopleThinkingMeanShowsWould BeLeftRealizingFashionTelevisionColorTvsIndustryCoupleDiversityRadioConsumersShadeTv ShowsLeft OutInterracial Couple Author:Tyson Beckford