Oh God. I have studied telecommunication for over four years. I have studied demographics regarding television, newspapers, magazines, and, yes, the internet. What are "demographics"? Generalizations! When I say that CNN is primarily watched by wealthier white conservatives around age 60, that's what the demographics have come up with. OBVIOUSLY there are exceptions, as I watch it too.
The internet, like it or not, is NOT accessible to the lower classes. I didn't even get it until I got into college, and I wouldn't be able to afford it at home, but a state program through the universities provides it free to students attending the public universities. The "old" portion referred to televised CNN. Internet CNN is primarily occupied by the business world. I'm sure you wouldn't have even noticed that internet poll had we not been mentioning it. Obviously, though, it's a chicken-egg argument on that.
BUT there are exceptions! There always are. But all I am quoting are demographics, which are, whatever the fuck you want to label them, "generalizations" and "stereotypes."
Melon
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"He had lived through an age when men and women with energy and ruthlessness but without much ability or persistence excelled. And even though most of them had gone under, their ignorance had confused Roy, making him wonder whether the things he had striven to learn, and thought of as 'culture,' were irrelevant. Everything was supposed to be the same: commercials, Beethoven's late quartets, pop records, shopfronts, Freud, multi-coloured hair. Greatness, comparison, value, depth: gone, gone, gone. Anything could give some pleasure; he saw that. But not everything provided the sustenance of a deeper understanding." - Hanif Kureishi, Love in a Blue Time
[This message has been edited by melon (edited 10-08-2001).]
