MAKING LAS VEGAS THE ENTERTAINMENT CAPITAL OF RIGHT LEANING NEWS, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT

May 31, 2022

My name is Vem Miller, and I am a candidate for Nevada’s Assembly District 13.

After graduating with a bachelors in American Literature / Creative Writing from UCLA in 1998, I began directing music videos and commercials, which I did professionally for about 10 years. In 2009, I transitioned to creating, selling and producing shows with brands such as A&E, History, Discovery, and other TV networks. As a part of my work as a producer, I’ve worked as an investigative journalist, revealing crime and corruption in our political, media, and judicial ranks. I’ve also helped get new TV networks off the ground, positions that included creating and producing new TV shows.

There is an immense shift that has been happening in the media landscape over the last 6 years. I remember a time when there was trust in the news and media for the majority. That trust has all but evaporated, at least in terms of most audiences on the right and even the center.

I saw first hand how woke ideology changed the media landscape from one that was simply concerned with producing good media and entertainment, to one that became a leftist propaganda machine that included censoring most points of view of the right, no matter how logical or benign those points of view happened to be. Many millions of viewers were left behind during this shift.

These millions flocked to the internet, where right learning perspectives and personalities garnered much larger audiences that most legacy news media shows. This includes shows and personalities like Steven Crowder, Steve Bannon, Tim Pool, the Hodge Twins, Ben Shapiro, and many more.

The response of the leftist media and social media industry has been to try to censor those right leaning voices on the internet, such as banning YouTube Channels and Twitter accounts, yet no matter how hard they try, right leaning online shows continue to rate better than most shows on the mainstream (legacy) media.

We must remember that these online shows are produced on a much smaller budget than legacy media shows by a 100:1 or even 1000:1 ratio.

It is clear that we are in a landscape in flux. The audience is looking for a truth that they cannot find in the mainstream news media, so they seek other sources. These types of shifting landscapes are where the future multi billion dollar media empires are built, and I believe that Las Vegas and Nevada is the place, and now is the time, to build such a network and industry.

New York was once the center of news and entertainment. New York is news and entertainment industry 1.0. Prices in New York, coupled with a lack of sunlight, space, and stable weather, began to shift the industry in New York in the early 1900s, to Los Angeles, where land was cheap and sunlight was plentiful, and where the groundbreaking studios of the time found acceptance to grow their businesses into the machines they have become today. Los Angeles is news and entertainment 2.0.

In 2022, Los Angeles is no longer a place where land is cheap. It is also not a place where the marketplace of ideas is accepted.

Nevada on the other hand, has plenty of land that is still inexpensive, not to mention countless cinematic locations, and plenty of space to build the studios of the future. Nevada also has a lot of talent, both behind the scenes, and in front of the camera. One of the rare upsides of the California exodus is that there are many Right leaning talents that are disgruntled with Los Angeles and would love to come work in the more accepting Nevada.

The way to build this new industry, news and entertainment 3.0 in Nevada, is to start first with a reasonably funded full time film and TV commission. The purpose of the film and TV commission is to:

1/ Help gather film and television business into Nevada from other states and countries, bringing in work and money for Nevadans. The builders and carpenters, as well as production talent, for which we have a budding industry built around the conventions in Las Vegas, will all have newer and greater opportunities as a result of the film and tv projects this commission brings to Nevada.

2/ Help build a fundraising plan toward building a right leaning studio complex and network, and…

3/ Execute that plan.

The goal is to raise funds that are used to build a studio and network, to acquire shows, create new shows, and movies, including Christian themed films, around a model where there are multiple sources of revenue beyond the content. Advertising and product sales would be a part of the revenue stream, operating under a 360 model where the revenue streams come from many sources.

The massive success of online right leaning media personalities has demonstrated that there is a very large gap in the market, and Las Vegas, as a hub of travel and a place that is accessible from all major cities, is the perfect city to build a new TV Network, smart app, and online news and media industry that caters to the majority of Americans throughout the entire right spectrum, and provides Nevadans and the children of Nevada, many jobs.

As we are seeing, Blaze TV is based in Texas, Joe Rogan is in Austin Texas. Ben Shapiro is in Nashville Tennessee. On both an international and national level, Las Vegas is a much more marquee location than any of the above, with many plusses in terms of access to both on screen and behind the screen talent. This is why I believe that the network of the future can be built here, and serve as a seed around which an entire new industry is built, right here in Nevada.