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   In article , Jim Gysin   
    wrote:   
   > Barry Margolin sent the following on 11/16/2010 10:34 PM:   
   > > In article,   
   > >   Jim Gysin  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> Again, I'm talking about SF *fans*, so once you start talking about   
   > >> people who don't like westerns not watching westerns, you're going   
   > >> off-track.   
   > >   
   > > But you can't make a profit operating a network that just caters to this   
   > > niche demographic.   
   > >   
   > > If SyFy were doing this for artistic value, then we'd certainly get high   
   > > quality fare (and they wouldn't have changed their name).  But it's a   
   > > *business*, and that means attracting a broader audience.   
   >   
   > Syfy made the changes that it made because it wanted a larger audience.   
   > That's not the same thing as saying that Syfy could not have continued   
   > on just fine without making the changes.  Like most businesses, they   
   > wanted to grow; they wanted a bigger piece of the pie, even though there   
   > was nothing wrong with the piece that they had to begin with.   
      
      
   That's called "big business" and is run by greedy morons who far too often   
   drive their company into the ground, and then leave with an obscene amount   
   of money while the real workers get nothing.  X-(   
      
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