Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 4/18/07, Lottermoser George <imagist3@mac.com> wrote: > > As Joe Bageant scathingly says in a remarkable bit of writing, He also wrote: Once upon a time business in the industrialized world needed its citizen laborers as customers, as consumers, which implied they be paid at least enough to buy the products of the businesses and corporations that beat their asses into submission along America's assembly lines and hog slaughtering plants. ---------- It seems clear to me, that when say GM is faced with a shrinking market and falling profits they close plants and lay off thousands of workers, they also lose thousands of customers. I once had my contract "bought out" by a TV station, and while I had a few months that I did not have to work, I seldom spent that leisure time watching that station. I've essentially had two careers in TV, one as a newsfilm photographer, and another as a live show news producer. I was a photographer in part of what is usually termed the "glory years " of TV news, the 60's and 70's. We worked hard, and we worked "good". I had a week where I messed up a few things. My News Director called me in and said "You've been screwing up. Stop screwing up." Then he turned and started typing his editorial. Most people running the business had come from Newspapers and Radio, and indeed, my jobs in college were with newspapers. We had a pretty well-honed sense of ethics. There were always battle lines drawn between the advertising sales guys and the news department. I remember several times when sales cried when we did a story detrimental to a client. I doubt that would happen today, they wouldn't have to cry. Sonny