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In this week's Slate (www.slate.com), Timothy Noah analyzes a chart from an
Oregon State University web page comparing movie ticket prices from 1935 through
1997. Noah asserts that while "politicians are constantly grandstanding about
the high price of movie tickets," in constant dollars, current movie ticket
prices aren't all that high. Noah's conclusion: "Moviegoers enjoy one of the
last great consumer bargains in America."
http://www.slate.com/Code/chatterbox/chatterbox.asp


Noah writes, "It's tempting to conclude that if consumers paid more for movies,
they would get better movies. But the 1980s, which produced movies that were
worse in the aggregate than movies being made today (and much, much worse than
the movies that were being made during the 1970s) would seem to disprove that
hypothesis, because movie-ticket prices were higher then (in constant dollars)
than they are now."