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Mark G: “[It’s all ab o u t...] Self-satisfaction. I’m centered around what I
want. I’m part of a group of like-thinking people who think the same,
'Hey, this is fun!’ We satisfy ourselves. We don’t have a group of people,
like a religious producer might consider 'I need to save these people by
giving them this message and this will help their day.’ I don’t have a
message to give people. I’m just here to shout off and spout off and do
what I want, what we want together. If that changes somebody’s hfe,
that’s great. If it doesn’t, that’s great, too. I really don’t have any golden
goal to reach. We kind of just do it. (Yoder 400)
These producers use stories and concepts that their audiences can relate to in
order to further their own interests.
Access Producers as a Folk Group
Fort Wayne access producers tell stories about each other. They also desire to
share production techniques and discuss programming concepts with each other.
Many producers have either told or heard stories about fellow producers’ access
exploits and experiences. Some accounts about a particular program’s content or
producer’s style are almost l