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Topic History of: Coulson/News of the World/Phil Hall
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Karmic Bounce |
I hear there's no money in recorded music these days anyway - most of the income comes from the licensing of sound recordings, air play PRS and from concerts? Just look what happened on iTunes when they announced they would be selling the entire Beatles back catalogue - their PR machine was trying to convince everyone that the charts would be awash with Beatles hits; it never happened. When you can rent a CD from your local library for 75 pence, take it home and ermmm, you know iPods come into the picture, it's no surprise that sales have fallen. That's a massive loophole that technology has yet conquer. 
I wonder how much of that 75 pence wends its way back to PPL and PRS?  |
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JK2006 |
I started it and it did become endemic and ruined the music scene. Good intentions, nothing illegal, broke hits. I wish somebody was doing the same kind of thing now (not precisely that which they are still doing and have destroyed the charts). |
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Karmic Bounce |
KK, You must have seen some questionable practices going in the record business over the years. I remember hearing many years ago about allegations that record companies were buying their own product to get certain artists into the charts and henceforth onto Top of the Pops. This process would supposedly act as a springboard into real sales and chart further topping success; I doubt the practice was endemic. However I do believe that just because the prevailing culturein an organisation is corrupt that you have to follow suit and be like the rest in order to fit in. |
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JK2006 |
Yes KB; mainly decent people with the best intentions - either lazy or gullible or corrupt but generally decent; it's an easy infection to pick up.
The other thing to remember is that thousands of people work for organisations like News Int; Assoc; Express - the vast majority do jobs that do not involve moral decisions and even the Editors are simply overseeing a paper. Bad behaviour becomes filtered down and down and wink and nudge slips through with ease in media as in life.
Ditto crime; 99% of the time it's nowhere near the clear cut extreme version precised for us morons who cannot take in complexity - we have neither the time nor the inclination to bother thinking whether a man who shook his wife gently during a row and made her fall, hit her head and die is a sad example of a tragic accident or a vile murderer who should be locked up for life. |
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veritas |
when you work on a News Corp title you drop your standards.
It really is like going to the dark side. And everyone does it because they all need those wages. Normally decent people 'push the envelope' on integrity.
When I got my first job at 16 working for a mega millionaire who had high standards he drilled into me that corruption starts at the top and filters down until it infects everyone there whether they know it or not. I've found it to be always the case  |
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