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nice to see someone articulate what the arts community has been saying is happening to them. It doesn't answer why media stopped covering arts, and the writer should know as he runs a website that used to have a large arts section, until it didn't. I actually asked him in an email why and he said it was because corporate sponsorship (Spark) for the music section got cancelled, NOT because readership had fallen off for those pages, and he does have the information on who reads what and what attracts readers attention.

So because a large corporation decides they don't want to pimp their product through a certain artform, coverage of that artform is cancelled and consequently that artform fades away, not because people aren't interested in it, or enjoy it, but purely because advertising money is not spent on it, because some corporate boffin has decided they're not interested, making everyone else unable to be interested.

rock, punk these things were political as much as cultural. Of course capitalists don't want to support that which breeds dissent! But the fact that our democratic institutions are also completely under the thumb of such fanaticism, paid to do a job they refuse to do, is the cultural rotten corpse in the village well.

Wells Tao maybe, though capitalism doesn't care. If money can be made, or is being made , it won’t likely be abandoned.

The market determines the value. The revolution industry is huge. “Sustainability” as an ex example is big business.

Look at Banksy.

He exemplifies this.

Maybe Spark faced an economic down turn and needed to re focus its portfolio.

The question I have is why the publication didn’t crowd fund or find another sponsor?

Jarad Bryant I think what this shows us is that the market is progressively less in control. The market did want music stories but the corporation decided differently and what the corporation says now goes

Rob Mayes Maybe, Though why did Spark pull out? And why not get another sponsor or crowd fund or something?

Jarad Bryant on a whim the king decided they didn’t find the jester amusing anymore and the other kings towed the same line

Rob MayesI doubt it was that simple. Though if true why not get another sponsor or crowd fund it?

Maybe the readership didn’t give Spark any love?

Jarad Bryant according to the editor the music articles were well read. I can only guess why it happened but it happened world wide. Not that I think music is a dissident artform in 2023. I don’t think it was silenced, I think it was something else.

Rob Mayesthat question would make an interesting article.

I'm disappointed the writer didn't interview himself for it. he was the perfect person to give some insight into it.

Rob Mayes ya my point ! It's the arts baby all of it, suck corporate toe or your out of the game. Old game, that the brief democratic investment in welfare arts like Punk and Rock briefly were enabled to flare up, exist push back a non captialist message. Oh yeah they stopped it. I'm stopped, But they can't control how fucking good I am at my job. Nor you.

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go on, imagine one contemporary artist that could go 12 rounds with me? Name just one. HA (I'm always looking for real deal Democratic Socialist Alies, those like me that are walking while we're talking. None of this not yet bollocks...)

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