The Cranky Media Guy

Variety.com - The CW’s sweet inspiration

So, what DO you do when the new network you cobbled together out of the still-festering carcasses of two other networks can’t come up with anything resembling a hit show to save its ass?  Why, you put some cutting-edge art on the walls of your offices, that’s what.

Don’t get me wrong; I actually like a lot of modern art.  It’s just that this is SO fucking corporate–thinking that putting something creative by someone not in your employ in the general vicinity of your staff will somehow cause said staff to come up with something creative of their own, as if imagination and creativity could be transmitted by osmosis.

Here’s MY heretical idea (lest I be accused, like the Democrats, of not having my own suggestions about how to end the war, or program this piece-of-shit network, or whatever):  Hire legitimately creative people and encourage them to BE creative, to take chances.  Oh, and don’t automatically punish them if something they do come up with doesn’t immediately work.  I know, I know, there I go, talking all crazy-like again.  Nah, just put some wacky art up on the walls and watch the juices start flowing,  Yeah, that’s the ticket.