MasterXXX is a comercial enterprise.
it is designed for Institutional Profit.
minimal costs, cast hired for ' effect '
it is not an educational effort
in any way .
PBS used to be educational with its cooking shows
some more insightful than others .
they are mostly now designed for the profit of the Franchise .
cookbooks , churn , etc to varying degrees.
from time to time the better productions have
interesting ideas and demonstrate a new technique .
The days of Julia Child ' The French Chef "
" Brought to you by Polaroid "
15 second early commercial at most most ! ( the message was from a Cambridge company )
are long over .
Mrs Child did indeed benefit
I have all her cookbooks
in HardBack.
20 years ago , I had cable installed in the house i grew up in
' free installation ' and free for a few months .
I did this as I was involved in selling the house
I lived there for this time and thus took the opportunity
to use the cable connection to learn how to move some of the
FoodNetwork content into my computer
and then manipulate it and save ( some of it )
this was 2000 or so.
FoodNetwork, after editing had more content than PBS
at that time .
( PBS had their ads , the cooking show ads , then donation ads.)
FN : Emeril , Sara Moulton , Wolfgang Puck and the like.
the intent is profit
same as FB ( its free , isn't it ? )
if you think MasterXXX reflects any thing else
other than carefully crafted profit
to the venue
cultivating dumb these days is very profitable .
FB banks on this .