From 9f1ff05c5fac20695dfacdf10a84fd74176dbb1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brinck Slattery Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:03:18 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update 154-how-ads-wrecked-entertainment.md --- content/news/154-how-ads-wrecked-entertainment.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/news/154-how-ads-wrecked-entertainment.md b/content/news/154-how-ads-wrecked-entertainment.md index 6a016e0f..a8514afc 100644 --- a/content/news/154-how-ads-wrecked-entertainment.md +++ b/content/news/154-how-ads-wrecked-entertainment.md @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ The movie industry managed to avoid the ad-supported mediocrity spiral that radi It’s 2018 - over 40 years ago, cable TV was introduced as the ad-free, subscriber-supporter alternative to broadcast TV, and almost immediately succumbed to the siren song of that sweet corporate ad revenue. Hollywood crumbled under the pressure as well, and movies have become product placement bonanzas. ![image alt text](https://spee.ch/7/Transformers.jpeg) -
Transformers, based on cartoon that was itself created to sell toys, has morphed from a big rig of simple toy shilling into a meta-Optimus Prime capable of selling ad space on top of an ad.
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Transformers, based on cartoon that was itself created to sell toys, has morphed from a big rig of simple toy shilling into a meta-Optimus Prime capable of selling ad space on top of an ad.

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