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Thought for the day

posted by [personal profile] benlehman at 12:27pm on 04/11/2009
From a conv w/ Jonathan last night:
Censors and artists are natural enemies. But censors and big media companies are naturally allies. What does that make artists and big media companies?
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posted by [identity profile] cucumberseed.livejournal.com at 07:36pm on 04/11/2009
This is not a trick question.

(It may well be Rhetorical)
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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 07:42pm on 04/11/2009
It's not a trick question. It's just food for thought.

It was after reading an article about the team-up between US media holdings companies and Chinese censorship regime to combat Chinese underground media producers.

yrs--
--Ben
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posted by [identity profile] cucumberseed.livejournal.com at 07:46pm on 04/11/2009
All those in power benefit from and therefore work to benefit those in power.
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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 11:46pm on 04/11/2009
Yes, but ...

A big media company can help an artist make a lot of money (sometimes.) They can help an artist distribute their message (sometimes.) They can amplify the signal enough that it gets picked up internationally, by people like the Chinese underground.

But the relationship is not always or necessarily an alliance. A media company is necessarily driven by it's own inherent will-to-profit and will-to-power. And the artist isn't necessarily the beneficiary of that.

yrs--
--Ben
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posted by [identity profile] benhimself.livejournal.com at 02:14pm on 05/11/2009
Cows arguably live better on farms than they would released into the wild.

But.... yeah.
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posted by [identity profile] yeloson.livejournal.com at 07:37pm on 04/11/2009
Pimps and prostitutes.
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posted by [identity profile] l-the-fangirl.livejournal.com at 11:34pm on 04/11/2009
Have I told you recently how much you rock, Yeloson?
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