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Old December 14th, 2006, 05:14 PM   #1
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Default Why do things have to be "realistic" ...

...to today's audience?


I'm curious. I've heard so much about how much more intelligence the viewing audience of today possesses, that I want to try figuring out how and why.

Below are just a few questions for which I'd like to get answers. Add questions of your own, if you like.




I've heard the terminology bandied about that today's audience is "more sophisticated". How so?


Since many of us, in today's 'sophisticated' audience were around during the "heathen days" of the 70's and 80's, what happened to make us so sophisticated?


Why does so much of television 'drama' seem to be a simple re-hash of the evening news?


In our ascendancy to sophistication, have we forgotten how to imagine?


Has the apparent popularity of reality shows cost us our imagination?
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