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Bluenorthwest

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28. The entertainment business is a business which knows how to self promote, those awards shows

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 11:39 AM

Jan 2015

are made to do just that, promote the industry and the products of the industry. The shows get put on TV because they are full of entertainers and entertainments people want to see. The awards shows serve that industry in ways they would not serve other fields. Mass popularity is vital to entertainers and films, utterly worthless to research scientists. The personalities of the professionals involved in showbiz are major components of the product, that is not so with a vaccine or a bit of physics. Without attention, the lab work continues apace. Without attention, showbiz closes up shop.
Invent a new heart valve, you need others in your profession to know about it, not the people who will eventually pay to have one installed but those who will install it.
Make a movie, you need as many people on the planet to know about it as possible, so that enough of them might select your movie over others to allow you to make profit and then another movie. If movie people told only other movie people about their products, they'd fail.

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Nobel Prizes and awards for saving lives. Rare. Entertainers receiving awards. Endless. [View all] merrily Jan 2015 OP

I don't watch any of them. HappyMe Jan 2015 #1

Why do we seem more obsessed with singers and actors than with brain surgeons? merrily Jan 2015 #2

I don't know that brain surgeons HappyMe Jan 2015 #10

Yeah! And how many knighthoods are bestowed for protecting the Realm? Orrex Jan 2015 #3

In the US? merrily Jan 2015 #5

Hell yeah! Are there any other countries that matter? Orrex Jan 2015 #6

That's show biz! GreatGazoo Jan 2015 #4

Let's hope not! But they do get some awards. We just don't care enough to televise, though. merrily Jan 2015 #11

I probably wouldn't watch The Doctor Awards either. HappyMe Jan 2015 #15

Even if the award were for inventing some lifesaving procedure? Or finding a vaccine or curing some merrily Jan 2015 #16

Probably not. HappyMe Jan 2015 #17

Even reading the names of all winners and their accomplishments in papers would be an improvement, merrily Jan 2015 #18

Just because they are scientists HappyMe Jan 2015 #19

Never said they didn't know how to dress. Whether they know or care who designed their garb and merrily Jan 2015 #20

the purpose of the award shows hfojvt Jan 2015 #22

i thought your Op might be about this. a fav of mine and right on point to your OP. seabeyond Jan 2015 #7

Yes (except celebrities were hosting an award show for fellow celebrities when they they said it). merrily Jan 2015 #12

I read about them the next day el_bryanto Jan 2015 #8

I think my Reply 11 answers your question. I also don't know how we change priorities. merrily Jan 2015 #13

I am pretty sure brain surgeons get their due hfojvt Jan 2015 #25

Unsung in comparison. Everything is relative, as the saying goes. merrily Jan 2015 #45

None. Most of the award winners are selected by morons. Adrahil Jan 2015 #9

Not everyone wants to be on tv JI7 Jan 2015 #14

I don't watch any of them. MineralMan Jan 2015 #21

LOL! merrily Jan 2015 #23

I'm curious. What did you find in my post to LOL about? MineralMan Jan 2015 #26

So any form of entertainment is unacceptable until the world's problems are dealt with? brooklynite Jan 2015 #24

Never said anything remotely like that. Starting a post with "So" and purporting to reword are merrily Jan 2015 #27

Awards shows are nothing more than escapist entertainment and are treated as such... brooklynite Jan 2015 #29

I am not sure they are treated as such. And a more pointed question might be merrily Jan 2015 #31

The entertainment business is a business which knows how to self promote, those awards shows Bluenorthwest Jan 2015 #28

I don't know if mass popularity is utterly worthless to research scientists. merrily Jan 2015 #30

I mean professionally. Popularity is not their stock in trade, it is for entertainers. Bluenorthwest Jan 2015 #34

You made excellent points. merrily Jan 2015 #35

PBS used to air the Nobel Prize ceremonies. kentauros Jan 2015 #32

Luckily, we can recognize accomplishments of others without subjecting ourselves to education. merrily Jan 2015 #33

Yes we can :) kentauros Jan 2015 #39

With enough media hype, we might be able to be trained to have more interest than we current seem to merrily Jan 2015 #42

You have to look at it from the media's side, though. kentauros Jan 2015 #47

Would love forsaken mortal Jan 2015 #36

I forgot that the prizes were individually designed. kentauros Jan 2015 #40

One would think that at least some public access station could air them. merrily Jan 2015 #43

I don't watch any. 840high Jan 2015 #37

I don't have a need to see rich people pat each other on the back. cherokeeprogressive Jan 2015 #38

All I can say is that country music seems to have an awards show every week. nt Dreamer Tatum Jan 2015 #41

That could probably be made into a good country music song. merrily Jan 2015 #46

I'm of the mind that entertainment is considered... entertaining LanternWaste Jan 2015 #44