Talk:Gatekeepers

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For example, ABC's series Desperate Housewives was turned town by Fox, CBS, NBC, HBO, Showtime, and Lifetime. This just proves how difficult gatekeeping in the television network is and how important management and personnel actually is. ABC has to have to prime personnel to see that Desperate Housewives would be such a big hit.

I removed the above because it seems to me very much like original research. Although ABC certainly has benefited from Desperate Housewives, it does not follow that they have great gatekeepers; it may be that they just got lucky, or that some form of the wisdom of crowds would be better than gatekeepers at choosing what to show on television. Overall, I think that the article has a very pro-gatekeeper POV, while it's not at all clear that gatekeepers are as useful as might be thought. I don't have a copy handy, but Loren Pope's writing regarding various experiments in selecting incoming college classes randomly among applicants who meet some minimum criteria would be another POV regarding gate keepers (namely, that for academic admissions, they don't actually provide value for either the academic institution or the applicants). - RedWordSmith 19:51, 11 February 2007 (UTC)