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<blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 5245598" data-attributes="member: 11437">At the risk is forking this discussion too far off course, I believe this lack of media penetration has a lot to do with how we get our information.&nbsp; Those of us uninterested in Bieber and Jonas, etc, very rarely encounter such information due to the channels through which we get our information.&nbsp; How many of you spend time on Justin Bieber's website or Facebook page (on second thought, don't answer that!)&nbsp; How many Jonas Brothers ads have you seen on EN World, rpg.net, and so forth?For my part, I limit myself to things in which I have an interest.&nbsp; I probably share some of these interests with some of you.&nbsp; I happen to &quot;know about&quot; Bieber and his cohorts from seeing Seventeen magazines and such at my local Speedway (they are right next to the cashiers).&nbsp; But beyond what they look like and their names, the half second I spend seeing the magazine cover is all the exposure they're going to get.&nbsp; And if you're perhaps not as observant as I am, you might not see it at all.I guess my point is that media companies had a far easier time marketing their stars before the Internet factionalized all of us into our individual niches.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Insight, post: 5245598, member: 11437"] At the risk is forking this discussion too far off course, I believe this lack of media penetration has a lot to do with how we get our information. Those of us uninterested in Bieber and Jonas, etc, very rarely encounter such information due to the [i]channels[/i] through which we get our information. How many of you spend time on Justin Bieber's website or Facebook page (on second thought, don't answer that!) How many Jonas Brothers ads have you seen on EN World, rpg.net, and so forth? For my part, I limit myself to things in which I have an interest. I probably share some of these interests with some of you. I happen to "know about" Bieber and his cohorts from seeing Seventeen magazines and such at my local Speedway (they are right next to the cashiers). But beyond what they look like and their names, the half second I spend seeing the magazine cover is all the exposure they're going to get. And if you're perhaps not as observant as I am, you might not see it at all. I guess my point is that media companies had a far easier time marketing their stars before the Internet factionalized all of us into our individual niches. [/QUOTE]

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