Lockup on MSNBC: education or explotation?

[MADem]

4. It's voyeuristic, it shines a light on a closed and "dangerous" society; it's TV's equivalent of

clickbait.

It's also a HUGE moneymaker--cheap to make, all that B roll can be repackaged into different formats with the same prison theme and the ad revenue it generates is PURE profit.

All you need is one guy pushing buttons to put that puppy on the air. No lighting, no anchor, no cameraman, no sound engineer, no producer, no directors, no make-up/hair stylist....just one buttscratcher who can push a button or two and make sure it goes out. And if you keep them spaced out enough in the rotation, you can get several showings out of 'em and most people won't even realize it's a rerun.

Ka-ching!!!!

If people get a "prison education" out of it, that's a bonus...but that's not the purpose, I don't think--I think they're after the dough!