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I voted NYC, covers too many aspects of media. 3 of the TV studios are there NBC, ABC, CBS, as well as NY Times, Wall Street Journal, NY Post, Daily News, Newsday, The Onion. Broadway, easily higher than any other North American city. Most all magazines come from NYC. Every single big 5 publishing company is in NYC, Penguin, S&S, Macmillan, Random House, Harper Collins. over 500 newspapers and magazines are out of NYC. NYC is also a much larger fashion center.
LA is better in film and music, but nothing else. NYC is the #1 or #2 in everything.
As far as film goes, LA does not have the lead like it once did, NYC has invested heavily in the film industry.
The film industry is responsible for 191,146 direct jobs and $17.0 billion in
wages in California. *
The film industry is responsible for 91,608 direct jobs and $8.2 billion in
wages in New York. *
* MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) statistics on economic impact of the film industry state by state
I'd go with NYC but it's close. Should've been an option for a tie on the poll. Easily the two biggest cultural exporters from this region of the world.
Pepsi...there's a product that screams "New York", smh. The product was invented in North Carolina.
Still not seeing what's so cultural about a bank either.
It's not the banks that are cultural. It's the bankers and their customers that make it a culture. Just look one state from you Chandler, how many people in Nevada had to go through loans and foreclosures? How about the people running financial institutions, your Hollywood thought it was cultural enough to make movies on it.
Heard the fictional (but very popular) name Gordan Gekko before? How about the very real and widely covered Bernie Madoff? The world was watching the drama unfold his financial victims and family. It's called corruption.
Have you even been to Downtown before? Do things like the Charging Bull, names like Alexander Hamilton, streets like Wall Street, and histories like the great depression and Hooverville not ring a bell to you?
Unrelated to finance how about America's mayor, Rudy? Or media titan Bloomberg. Even our politicians get wide coverage.
It's not the banks that are cultural. It's the bankers and their customers that make it a culture. Just look one state from you Chandler, how many people in Nevada had to go through loans and foreclosures? How about the people running financial institutions, your Hollywood thought it was cultural enough to make movies on it.
Heard the fictional (but very popular) name Gordan Gekko before? How about the very real and widely covered Bernie Madoff? The world was watching the drama unfold his financial victims and family. It's card corruption.
Have you even been to Downtown before? Do things like the Charging Bull, names like Alexander Hamilton, streets like Wall Street, and histories like the great depression and Hooverville not ring a bell to you?
Yeah it is a small part of our culture - though is it a very positive impact? I guess greedy finance worker in a 3-piece suit that costs more than your car is sort of the "New Yorker" stereotype in the same way that a plastic surgery queen with bleach blonde hair in a Lexus is the "Angeleno" stereotype.
It is misleading. LA isn't the only place they're seeing. I would say at this point just as many films show off NYC as they do LA. Same thing applies for television shows and every year I see more of it. Naturally LA takes it on this but it's a lot closer than its given credit for.
I'm talking more about where the films are made not where they are set, although that's important too (and I'd say L.A. and New York are equal in this regard) it matters far less than where the product actually comes from.
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Fashion brands like echo, aeropostale, Ann Taylor, Barney's New York, Bloomingdale's, Brooks Brothers, Calvin Klein, Century 21, Club Monaco, Coach, DKNY, J&R, J. Crew, Kenneth Cole, Liz Claiborne, Macy's, Michael Kors, Paul Stuart, Polo, Revlon, Rocawear, SAKS Fifth Avenue, Sean John, Steve Madden, Warnaco are all based here. It's already been pointed out but NYC's much better at runway than LA too.
L.A. has a ton of fashion brands as well like Forever 21, American Apparel, Guess, Juicy Couture, Seven Jeans, True Religion, Lucky Brand Jeans, Quiksilver, and I'm sure there are tons more that I don't know about. And as I mentioned before, not only does L.A. play a large role in popularizing the clothing (no matter where it comes from) but it is also the inspiration for some of it as well.
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Media companies like ABC, Associated Press, CBS, Conde Nast, DC Comics, Marvel Entertainment, Food Network, Granite Broadcasting, HBO, MTV, New York Times, New Young Broadcasting, Prometheus Global Media, Showtime Networks, Sony Entertainment America, Time Warner, Universal Music Group, Viacom, Warner Music Group.
A lot of which get their programming from Los Angeles...
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Financial institutions and stock exchanges like S&P, Dow Jones & Company, American Express, Master Card, NASDAQ, NYSE, Goldman Sachs, Cowen Group, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, etc.
Sorry, but finance is not culture no matter how you slice it. Might as well start including oil and pharmaceutical companies.
It's not the banks that are cultural. It's the bankers and their customers that make it a culture. Just look one state from you Chandler, how many people in Nevada had to go through loans and foreclosures? How about the people running financial institutions, your Hollywood thought it was cultural enough to make movies on it.
Heard the fictional (but very popular) name Gordan Gekko before? How about the very real and widely covered Bernie Madoff? The world was watching the drama unfold his financial victims and family. It's called corruption.
Have you even been to Downtown before? Do things like the Charging Bull, names like Alexander Hamilton, streets like Wall Street, and histories like the great depression and Hooverville not ring a bell to you?
Unrelated to finance how about America's mayor, Rudy? Or media titan Bloomberg. Even our politicians get wide coverage.
Villaraigosa is pretty well reported on - hosted the DNC.
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