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The U.S. earns about $80 billion a year from the export of its popular culture.
If I'm reading the article correctly, the "Cultural products" are mostly movies and music. On one hand, I want to support American businesses, but OTOH the world is kinda sticking it to Hollywierd. Given the amount of crap that passes for "cultural products" these days, it might be nice to limit them here too....

I agree. Last night (Tues) at 8:00 pm (family hour?) on NCIS there was a graphic sex/porn scene which culminated in a murder (you actually see the woman's throat slit, blood and all) and this is in the first five minutes of the show. It's a CBS network show. My husband was like, "they show this kind of crap on TV now? What happened to family hour, it's only 8:00." We turned it off. Most movies and television are worthless, boring, stupid, inane...I don't have enough adjectives. Maybe Hollyweird should come up with a better product, then everyone would want it. A market-driven economy does work, the advertisers should know this.

on NCIS there was a graphic sex/porn scene which culminated in a murder (you actually see the woman's throat slit, blood and all)

LOL!
You should have kept watching, since that scene was the only "fake" scene in the entire episode, and the key to finding the real murderess.

"The U.S. earns about $80 billion a year from the export of its popular culture.
If I'm reading the article correctly, the "Cultural products" are mostly movies and music. On one hand, I want to support American businesses, but OTOH the world is kinda sticking it to Hollywierd. Given the amount of crap that passes for "cultural products" these days, it might be nice to limit them here too...."

It is a bit like the Iran-Iraq War, isn't it? Madonna and Alec Baldwin vs. Kofi Annan and Jaques Chirac.