Mark,
Thanks for the comments. Replies below...
> [Before starting, I just want to say none of this is
targetted at
Mark
> (who has said several times that he voted for
Marlowe, but was
> overruled), but at the decision making process of
the corporation
for
> which he works.]
Let me make it clear that none of these choices was a
"corporate decision" in the sense that some Powers That Be at
NBC News or the SLEUTH channel dictated that we had to do
this. Instead, this was a group decision made by the people
working on the project.
Yeah, I got overruled on a choice - but so did other people
on other choices. It's all part of the imperfect
process.
> Although I am often drawn to edgier, less overtly
commercial fare,
I am
> not automatically averse to market considerations
(always find it
> amusing when old fans automatically dismiss a cult
fave's commercial
> breakthrough as a sell-out, even if they loved it
before it crossed
> over). And all of the authors under current
discussion certainly
took
> the market into consideration.
I crack up about this, too. I think we like to dismiss a cult
fave that goes mainstream because it's a way of crowing that
we were "in the loop" LONG before Joe Public.
But this rationale seems to go beyond
> market consideration to pandering. In rejecting Dick
Powell simply
> because he is no longer an instantly recognized
name, you imply
that the
> goal is nothing more than to give the public exactly
what it already
> knows and has embraced.
Yes, that is exactly what we're doing. We're celebrating a
list of the Top Sleuths for the American public. I don't have
a problem with that.
> Now I'm a fan of "best of" lists, and I do like to
have my faves
honored
> (and my good taste confirmed). However, the other
big appeal of
lists
> is discovering something new that I had previously
missed, but
should
> know about: "If you like these, maybe you should
check out this,
too."
I still think most viewers will learn something new from the
project. Perhaps not the Rare Birds that exist here, who are
experts in the subject, but regular people who just enjoy
watching cop shows or remembers like MURDER SHE WROTE.
>but I agree with Jim
Now that's a statement I never thought I'd read!
Mark, I appreciate the note - and especially what you wrote
at the end. I'm not going to copy and reply to it again since
I think I shed as much light on the process as I can in the
earlier note to Jim.
Thanks, Mark
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