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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 220343" data-attributes="member: 102">It&#039;s not the purpose of the entertainment business to accurately depict reality, unless it&#039;s a documentary. If it were their objective to accurately depict reality, exceptionally good-looking people would be a rarity in movies and TV, but they&#039;re not, because people like seeing them. That won&#039;t ever change. Accurately depicting reality isn&#039;t their job because it doesn&#039;t make money! Their objective is to provide entertainment that people will like. The market decides what is successful. My favorite show ever, Dallas, had an all white lead cast. Would I have wanted it cast differently? No! It was cast brilliantly. Another show I watched regularly was The Cosby Show and they had no whites at all in lead roles. It was an all black cast and I wouldn&#039;t have wanted it cast any differently. It was great the way it was. Both were the most successful shows of their time.It&#039;s up to the people making a series or movie to decide what will work for their particular project. The public decides whether it succeeds or fails. The most successful actor in Hollywood is Dwayne Johnson. He&#039;s half black and half Samoan. Dwayne Johnson makes at least 2o million dollars for every movie he makes. It has nothing to do with his race; he&#039;s the best at what he does! That&#039;s what a free market does; it rewards people based on how many people buy tickets to their movies or how many people watch their shows. If people want what you&#039;re offering them it succeeds and if not, it fails. That makes it so as a producer, it&#039;s in your best interest to hire the best people for the job, no matter what color they are. It&#039;s a merit based system. If they don&#039;t hire the best people for the job, they&#039;re costing themselves money and who is gonna want to do that?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 220343, member: 102"] It's not the purpose of the entertainment business to accurately depict reality, unless it's a documentary. If it were their objective to accurately depict reality, exceptionally good-looking people would be a rarity in movies and TV, but they're not, because people like seeing them. That won't ever change. Accurately depicting reality isn't their job because it doesn't make money! Their objective is to provide entertainment that people will like. The market decides what is successful. My favorite show ever, Dallas, had an all white lead cast. Would I have wanted it cast differently? No! It was cast brilliantly. Another show I watched regularly was The Cosby Show and they had no whites at all in lead roles. It was an all black cast and I wouldn't have wanted it cast any differently. It was great the way it was. Both were the most successful shows of their time. It's up to the people making a series or movie to decide what will work for their particular project. The public decides whether it succeeds or fails. The most successful actor in Hollywood is Dwayne Johnson. He's half black and half Samoan. Dwayne Johnson makes at least 2o million dollars for every movie he makes. It has nothing to do with his race; he's the best at what he does! That's what a free market does; it rewards people based on how many people buy tickets to their movies or how many people watch their shows. If people want what you're offering them it succeeds and if not, it fails. That makes it so as a producer, it's in your best interest to hire the best people for the job, no matter what color they are. It's a merit based system. If they don't hire the best people for the job, they're costing themselves money and who is gonna want to do that? [/QUOTE]

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