It's that "possibly" that worries me. Our view of the US public is filtered by what Hollywood presents of and to them; and Hollywood's view is driven by what will be profitable, which inevitably introduces the spectre of the lowest common denominator.
I'm sure there are many Americans who feel short-changed by that. American perceptions filtered by the media, and media perceptions of the American public, tend to form a bit of a closed system where they feed into each other. (And it's true of us too, of course; while our media may look a bit wider, we have our own in-built parochialities.) I worry more about the Hollywood/media perception of the American public than I do about the American public itself because, while the media are sometimes responding to the public voice, they're more often in the position of saying "The American public think this" than the American public are.
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Date: 2010-11-14 01:10 pm (UTC)It's that "possibly" that worries me. Our view of the US public is filtered by what Hollywood presents of and to them; and Hollywood's view is driven by what will be profitable, which inevitably introduces the spectre of the lowest common denominator.
I'm sure there are many Americans who feel short-changed by that. American perceptions filtered by the media, and media perceptions of the American public, tend to form a bit of a closed system where they feed into each other. (And it's true of us too, of course; while our media may look a bit wider, we have our own in-built parochialities.) I worry more about the Hollywood/media perception of the American public than I do about the American public itself because, while the media are sometimes responding to the public voice, they're more often in the position of saying "The American public think this" than the American public are.