hairygrape;307117 wrote:
I don’t actually agree that he, or others like him, would necessarily “shut out otherwise talented people from the creative industries because they are working class or didn’t go to the right uni or they won’t sleep with the producers”. I think thats presumptious and small-minded to automatically presume they’d do that/be that way without knowing them.
one thing I forgot to tell you (as I didn’t want to derail the thread too much) is that I spent 3 years working in the media industry and did consider it as a permanent career. I have indeed met many media people (although not so much the celebs) and noticed this sort of thing happen first hand due to a variety of factors – not even just with a-list but with local media “personalities”, some proper alan partridge stuff :laugh_at:
I have also seen a few shows being filmed and heard a lot of stories from insiders (particularly engineers) and it really is a cut throat business, many people on the same project fucking hate one another (even co-presenters) but put on a facade because they all want to keep the work. there are other pressures on the luvvies such as budgets / funding etc but most of them actually buy their commissions through their own production companies and thus keep the work within a tight little circle.
It really is a “closed shop” and one of the few remaining ones in this nation, hence why the media is completely out o touch (and also why it is self destructing itself..)
