{"id":423,"date":"2006-07-14T08:05:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T16:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2006-07-14T08:05:43","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T16:05:43","slug":"how-businessmen-are-portrayed-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/14\/how-businessmen-are-portrayed-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"How businessmen are portrayed on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/taste\/?id=110008653\">short article<\/a> from the Wall Street Journal is interesting (found via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/14\/newspaper-nitpickery\/\">Freakonomics Blog<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The study, titled &#8220;Bad Company,&#8221; looked at the top 12 TV dramas during May and November in 2005, ranging from crime shows like &#8220;CSI&#8221; to the goofy &#8220;Desperate Housewives.&#8221; Out of 39 episodes that featured business-related plots, the study found, 77% advanced a negative view of the world of commerce and its practitioners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>On the various &#8220;Law &#038; Order&#8221; shows, for instance, almost 50% of felonies&#8211;mostly murders&#8211;were committed by businessmen. In almost all of the primetime programs, when private-sector protagonists showed up, they were usually doing something unethical, cruel or downright criminal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of interesting to me, because I watch those shows all the time and never noticed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short article from the Wall Street Journal is interesting (found via the Freakonomics Blog): The study, titled &#8220;Bad Company,&#8221; looked at the top 12 TV dramas during May and November in 2005, ranging from crime shows like &#8220;CSI&#8221; to the goofy &#8220;Desperate Housewives.&#8221; Out of 39 episodes that featured business-related plots, the study found, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-6P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}