18 to 39 year-old, upper-middle-class women
are the preicise target group that the news is tailored for (
as dictated by advertisers), and 18 to 49 year-old, upper-middle-class women
are the overall target.
Tom Bettag, senior executive producer of ABC's Nightline, explains that
the target demographic of 30-something upper-middle-class women
is
why
stories such as the Laci Peterson murder get disproportionate coverage.
Listen to the interview on NPR's Morning Edition:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5022697 It's a fairly short segment and well worth hearing, at least once.
:yes: :yes: :yes: Okay, okay, if any man today didn't already have a general idea something like that was going on he's:
A. not reading SYG,
B. been stranded on the space station for the past 35 years.
C. a mindless, automoton (robot), news anchor
D. dead
E. any combination of the above