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Jamie Kellner, Architect of Fox and WB Networks, Dies at 77

Jamie Kellner, a prominent media executive for more than three decades who was instrumental in the launch of two broadcast networks and helmed the all-news channel CNN, died Saturday at the age of 77.

Kellner died at his home in Montecito, Calif. He had been battling cancer.

Kellner was the first president and chief operating officer of the Fox network, which launched in 1986 and was the brainchild of Rupert Murdoch and then Fox Inc. Chief Executive Barry Diller.

At the time, few gave Fox much of a chance to succeed against the entrenched CBS, NBC and ABC. The network’s strategy was to target younger viewers who were often ignored by the established broadcasters. Fox also loosened up content restrictions with producers, leading to more risqué fare that helped generate publicity for the upstart network.

During Kellner’s tenure at Fox, the network launched several hits that captured the cultural zeitgeist, including “Married…with Children,” “The Simpsons,” “In Living Color,” “Beverly Hills 90210” and “Melrose Place.”

Some Fox shows were shunned by many advertisers because of their raunchiness, particularly “Married…with Children,” which was the subject of advertiser boycotts in its early years on the air. Ultimately, though, their success in the ratings was too much for advertisers to ignore.

Fox and Wall Street Journal parent News Corp share common ownership.

>>21070836

>I personally know of a surgeon and a programer, and many engineers who don't have a clue about what's really going on.

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>it's a drip, drip, drip.

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>the next drip is inevitable.

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>>21070852

>The plan has revealed to us that the highly educated have now become the least intelligent. Your surgeon and engineer are Exhibit A.

I think it's about Book Smart people who aren't Street Smart. They buy into the party line or their version of the priesthood (like the medical field) so there's also a little bit of prestige and ego in there as well.

And those who ARE both Book Smart and Street Smart who choose to go along with it rationalize it with phrases like "if we didn't do it someone else would/ this is the way the world works and always has worked"

So God bless those of us who did figure this all out and chose to go against the grain to do the right thing despite the losses in their personal lives.

>>21070984

>My pediatric psychiatrist dau and her sister, a veterinarian are both jabbed to the hilt! They seem incapable of thinking rationally anymore.

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>14 years of school for the shrink, and they got to both of them. I pray they come around before it's too late.

They're the toughest to crack imo.

My best guess is that they're thinking it's a choice between believing the people on tv, accredited academia and medicine, vs a few outliers in medicine and black sheep family member who posts cartoon frogs all day.

It's rough. I think of the story of Lot when I hear stories like this.