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This reminds me of this Marvel comics editor speaking about the 00s. This editor said anger sells (pic related).
A bunch of tv writers/producers of the early 00s, like Kurtzman, or people like Joss Wheedon, took on this exact same attitude, that if they were pissing off, getting people talking on the message board, using cheap tricks and gimmicks, then that was somehow a success for them. A lot of people get a few successes and then repeat the same ideas across their whole career until it fizzles out. (And those early successes had nothing to do with this attitude, it was a coincidence.)
You're reading into a bunch of stuff that isn't there. His argument is 50/50 is good because debate = good, which fits into my point that these idiot producers think online debates/divisiveness is good for the show, because no publicity is bad publicity to them and they think it made their shows successful in the 00s. He thinks that when that is unbalanced, then it is bad. This is all part of the same misunderstand that these producers have because they don't understand any of this. But like I said, rather than attributing it to ignorance or stupidity, you think he is being purposefully subversive, why? To piss off a load of fans so they stop watching? Okay, done.