Television seeks rebirth through violence and market symbiosis

Evidence

No wonder, then, that the small screen longs for yet another chance at rebirth by way of unexpected violence; no wonder also that its truncated afterlife is available for new semiotic combinations and prosthetic symbioses of all kinds, of which the marriage to the market has been the most elegant and socially successful. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 763

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘marriage to the market’ as media’s prosthetic symbiosis resonates with Neil Postman’s ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ and with the commodification thesis in Chapter 2 on postmodernism and consumer society. — connects to: Violence persists on television because advertising demographics, not audience demand, drive programming — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 943; Institutional incentives, not human nature, drive televised violence. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 954; Violence dominates television because action formats are cheapest to produce per viewer — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 944 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Violence persists on television because advertising demographics, not audience demand, drive programming — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 943; Institutional incentives, not human nature, drive televised violence. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 954; Violence dominates television because action formats are cheapest to produce per viewer — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 944 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Crisis reveals broadcasting’s hidden symbiosis with power and dominant ideologies more than with profit #complicates (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 856