The Media Research Center, a conservative television watchdog group instituted a study to see how Hollywood represents businessmen and women.
According to their findings they claim that Hollywood unfairly and overwhelmingly casts businessmen and women as "criminal CEOs and murdering MBAs."
The group's Business & Media Institute watched 129 episodes of the 12 top-rated prime-time shows on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox during the May and November "sweeps" periods of 2005. If you're a TV businessman, you may want hire a crisis-management group to help your image. After which, apparently, you will kill them.
The study concluded that NBC's "Law & Order" was the most "overtly hostile" toward business.
They added that you were 21 times more apt to be kidnapped or murdered by someone in business than you would be by terrorists or the mob. The shows also had businessmen committing five times the crimes as terrorists and four times as many crimes as gang members did.
The only shows they found where businessmen or women were revealed in a positive light were NBC's "Las Vegas" and "Medium."
It is interesting to see this when Hollywood itself is one of the truly negative and bullying businesses in the world today. That and the way they've treated some of their actors and actresses throughout the years is so dark that it's a joke to see them try to influence people see business as a group of criminals.
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