Still on that paper-reduction treadmill, I found a Playbill interview with Anne Meara from the mid-1990s, relevant to what took place over the last thirty-plus years in publishing and the media, the fashioning of media product catch-all composites, wherein the guiding principles are no-stone-unturned and lowest-common-denominator.
Meara:
“I think it’s very difficult to try to guess what everyone out there will like and try to please them. Which is why the networks are in trouble. I know it myself from the few times I’ve tried to write for television. Something for you, something for you, something for YOU—until there’s nothing left.”