Pete Johnson

@itstv.bsky.social

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Studying media industries, finance, & US television history. Visiting Assistant Professor @ NYU Gallatin Self-hating Yankees fan and staunch opponent of the Kalshitification of culture

screenshot of nyt text reading: There are, of course, other criticisms that can be leveled at A.I. slop: its contribution to reduced attention spans, a lack of human connection, an increasingly fuzzy border between advertising and entertainment, the eternal return of Tung Tung Tung Sahur. But, when I brought these things up with Khaves and his team, I heard a kind of social critique echoed back to me. Slop, they said, is the art of democracy. Khaves kept mentioning that “a guy in his parents’ basement” could now influence a large part of the culture. Kim added: “A 15-year-old can directly compete with the biggest ad agency in New York. And it’s kind of beautiful.”
This image is a line graph titled "Station Sales (1970-1992)," which tracks the volume and value of television station transactions in the United States over a 22-year period. A peak is visualized in 1987.
A black-and-white business cartoon by Jack Schmidt for Broadcasting magazine. A man in a suit, holding a newspaper, stands outside an office doorway labeled "ACCOUNTING." Inside, an older man wearing a visor sits at a high, old-fashioned wooden desk with a single lamp hanging above it. The man in the suit asks, "What the hell's a leveraged buyout?"
highlighted text from a deadline article: "Fifth Season reportedly lost money on Severance in the first two seasons, especially in Season 2. According to sources, the company indeed would’ve been in the red had Severance been canceled after two seasons. Since the series is continuing, Fifth Season is expected to turn a profit from collecting producing fees going forward (along with selling the rights to Apple)."
An area chart titled "Figure 4. Percentage of primetime programs by supplier type (1970–90)", showing percentage of prime-time schedule slots on the Y-axis and years from 1970 to 1990 on the X-axis. The chart is broken down into three categories: Independent (Blue), Studio (Red), and Studio Co-Production (Yellow). It shows how studio production decreased in the late 1970s, but resurged in the late 1980s.
A stacked bar chart titled "Figure 1. Primetime commissioned programs by supplier type (1970–80)", showing the percentage breakdown of programs from 1970 to 1980 among categories: Independent Producer, Studio, Independent Studio Co-Production, Network Co-Production, and Network. It demonstrates how in the first few years of the 1970s, independent production actually remained quite low to studio production in television.
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