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It is obvious that ads are placed by dumb software automatically into into any 'harmonious" programming that contains words, content or image triggers that can match up to the ads in any way whatsoever. Sometimes the results are unfortunate, hilarious, ghoulish, but we hardly notice anymore, even if the evening news triggers revolting resonance with banal commercials.
Movie programming over the multitude of channels seems also harmonized by computers. Birthdays, deathdays, seasonal fare, contemporary news, history all seem to resonate with the resurrection of the same old film connections, like "Mommie Dearest" on Mothers' Day sand Jack Nicholson's "the Shining" on Fathers' day. I wonder if any human personally makes the programming anymore. Interjections of commenting narrators is also canned after the initial era of reintroducing old movies with new funky commentary and clever clips went into the box as well.
So when you see anti-fascist fare after some recent incident you mistakenly take heart this is an underground programmer reaching out to the public. Or the ghoulish black humor effect makes you think they are cruel cynics. In the case of FOX you may well suspect that the software itself has been edited out so you never see "Grapes of Wrath" even during your local Grape Festival season. With that undesirable content completely edited out whatever instant connection the computer hits will be RW or with an irony that the typical FOX audience won't be harmed by.
Of course I don't know how this works. It just seems to be the answer for the apparent, very mechanical instant match that happens reflexively.
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