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Entertainment, Film & Media

Records were only the beginning; attention itself became a business.

I.R.S. expanded into film, television, publishing, live entertainment, and new forms of promotion because the audience never lived inside one medium. MTV, The Cutting Edge, I.R.S. Media, feature films, broadcasting, and brand partnerships all became parts of the same larger question: how do you make the public care?

This is the machinery behind entertainment—the good ideas, bad ideas, expensive ideas, and ideas everyone later claimed were obvious.

Miles Copeland in the Dominican Republic

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