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Les Brown

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

Les Brown

Business

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Television companies focus more on attracting viewers so they can sell their attention to advertisers rather than on creating meaningful communication through their programs. The actual content is just a tool used to gather audiences, who are treated like products to be marketed.

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