Is age discrimination o.k. in some cases?

musicprnt
Thu, 26 May 2016 21:04:30 +0000

It may be discrimination, or it may be simply that those shows are hard to get tickets for (and I don’t know one way or the other). They may want to keep the audience from appearing too old because that can give a show, especially a talk show, a reputation for being fuddy duddy or something, and given when talk shows tape often it is older people who have the time to go to them, retirees mostly, so perhaps that played into decisions. It is true that older people often have a lot more discretionary income, but advertisers are looking at a much younger demographic, especially when selling products that they think would only appeal to younger people (it is why you also see Buick, who had the rap of being an old person’s car, putting ads in shows popular among younger viewers and showing young, ‘beautiful’ people in the ads driving the cars). On the other hand I watch some shows I like, and I see all these ads for medi alert, catheter sales and the like…