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   "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   news:your.name-1811101339560001@203-109-169-248.dial.dyn.ihug.co.nz...   
   > 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-(   
      
   Yeah, those poor actors are homeless and must beg for food.   
      
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