Front Line American Porn INC.

The episode of frontline I chose to watch was about the american pornography industry and how it connects to mass media and commercial markets. "In American porn FRONTLINE reports on the forces behind the explosion of sexual explicit material available in american society. Though interviews with adult entertainment executives and lawyers, porn producers and directors,federal and state prosecutors, anti-porn activists and a wall street analyst covering the entertainment industry, the program examines the business ties between respected corporations and porn companies, the rise of extreme hardcore porn, and the pending political battle that may soon engulf the multibillion-dollar porn industry." -direct from frontline. In this episode it talked about how major corporations like at&t, and large hotel chains have these business deals with porn distributors where like AT&T gets like 80% of the earnings from this porn distribution on att&t cable or the hotels make more from selling porn on the room TVs than they do from anything else, all the snacks and liquor from the mini bars. Of course these super profitable business deals upset people like the religious right wing conservatives who think that obscenity has no place on a major corporate television provider. The frontline episode talked with several people in the porn industry who control the market about how the advent of the internet and world wide web helped launch their companies into multi billion dollar status. Also interviewed were poeple in the legal system about how backlash against the smut industry may lead to drastic consideration of revamping the governments involvement in obscene marketing and merchandising.