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Originally posted by SummerChild
I am an eternal optimist so I will say that I hope that it does change. What I don't understand is why Bob "readily agreed" if he has been in charge since the beginning and (in my opinion) therefore in charge of all of the garbage pumped over the airwaves that the advertisers don't agree with. Seems like he should be a little embarrassed that *advertisers* have to be the ones to slap BET's wrists about the programming. That's the real shame here.
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To be honest, I really do believe that advertisers run TV programming more than the individual stations do, and that's for just about all networks. I suppose that as long as BET's advertisers were putting the money up, the programmers nor Bob had much of a reason to change anything. And Seagram's Gin don't care about racial uplift.
I was having a conversation with my ma and she made the point that BET should cease to be a channel. Her reasoning was that we need to insist that, being that we are a good-sized chunk of the American population, and this is OUR COUNTRY as much (or moreso) than anyone else's, we need to
demand and insist
that the networks cater to us as viewers and consumers. I agree with her on that, but I feel like a station "for us" still has a place and a purpose.
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