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Re:A lack of male protagonists is making it harder to get yo... by rnd0 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:23AM (#50413094)
>When you look at where money is spent and by whom, keep it in mind as you shift the demographics of who's watching / reading. The money moves with the groups interest, and it doesn't necessarily get filled by the new demographic.

I'm not clear on what exactly you mean. My best guess is: "media is produced to satisfy an audience's desires" but I'm not even confident that's what you mean.

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Re:A lack of male protagonists is making it harder to get yo... by bombcar on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:27AM (#50413148)
Media is not produced to satisfy an audience's desires; that's only indirectly and coincidental; more and more.

Media is produced to satisfy an executive's desire, which is often based on what they think the audience wants, but sometimes is based on what they think the audience should want.

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Re:A lack of male protagonists is making it harder to get yo... by bulbar on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:08AM (#50414432)
I don't think that's the incentive. Executives don't care about such things. It's just that they are risk adverse, they try to avoid drama as that's a risk.
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Re:A lack of male protagonists is making it harder to get yo... by hunterpayne on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:43PM (#50416991)
Avoiding drama is the exact opposite of what you want to do in publishing. This sentence is true for both meanings of the word 'drama'.
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Re:A lack of male protagonists is making it harder to get yo... by kakacik on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:31AM (#50413181)
Media is rarely passive and never just follows where consumers point to, is it. Eveeybody with some power has some agenda to push on others.

I dont even mean cia/military-backed ultra patriotic movies from hollywood of the past, eveeybody simply has their opninion and even journalism is rarely objective.

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