{"id":2771,"date":"2005-04-10T08:40:18","date_gmt":"2005-04-10T12:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/04\/10\/2771.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:48:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:48:11","slug":"to-morrows-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/04\/10\/to-morrows-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"to Morrow&#8217;s episode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, Your Humble Blogger had, you know, noticed the advertisement for the new Fox sitcom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/stacked\/\">Stacked<\/a> because of the enormous stacks of books, right? But I had thereafter dismissed it from mind. And I probably would not have thought of it much again, had I not happened to notice the New York Times review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/04\/10\/arts\/television\/10jaco.html?adxnnl=1&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;adxnnlx=1113134534-BpnMJTdeiIOJTuWJcx\/U7w\">Why Johnny Can't Read<\/a>, by Alexandra Jacobs. And even then, the thing that caught my eye was the following sentence: &#8220;The show's bookstore - supplied exclusively with volumes from HarperCollins, which, like Fox, is owned by the News Corporation - is the place \"where everyone knows your name,\"...&#8221;\n<p>Genius. Evil, yes, but genius. Synergy, right? If the show is moderately successful, they can easily slip an author signing, too. And nobody will notice. There is no way that the average viewer&#8212;heck there&#8217;s no way that the really hepped-up insider would notice that the half-dozen or so actual book titles mentioned over the course of an episode are all published out of the same house and its imprints such as William Morrow, Avon, Eos, Zondervan, Caedmon, and Quill (among others). And really, what does it hurt? I mean, yes, the writers are a trifle constrained, but with so many books to choose from, it shouldn&#8217;t be at all difficult for the writers to throw the ads in while giving each character distinct preferences and dislikes. Of course, it&#8217;s dishonest and sneaky, but you can&#8217;t blame the show for the conglomeration of publishing houses under media megacorporations, or those media megacorporations for taking advantage of their, you know, evil megacorporatude.\n<p>Or can you?\n<p>Anyway, if the show is successful, can we expect a chain of <I>Stacks<\/I> &#8216;independent&#8217; bookstores, stocked only with HarperCollins books and leftover Cliff and Norm animatrons?\n\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Your Humble Blogger had, you know, noticed the advertisement for the new Fox sitcom Stacked because of the enormous stacks of books, right? But I had thereafter dismissed it from mind. And I probably would not have thought of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nytimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17374,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/17374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}