David Simon, creator of "The Wire," says advertising kills (and is killing) TV.
David Simon was appearing at the Edinburgh International TV Festival.
He said: “Television as a medium, in terms of being literate and telling stories, has short-changed itself since its inception.
“That is because of advertising.”
Simon, whose work originates on US subscription cable channel HBO, said: “Only when television managed to liberate itself from the economic construct of advertising was there a real emancipation of story.
Source: BBC
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caz reblogged this from tanya77 and added:
This is a good read… especially what he says about how shows are written around the ad breaks now… so its all short...
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tanya77 reblogged this from spytap and added:
hear his alternative-funding ideas. Government-financed, consumer-financed, or ad-financed; it can’t just exist on air.
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