Thanks to my favorite ridiculous news aggregator, Fark.com, I happened upon this lovely article over at Variety.
It is fair to say that the events that unfolded last night during the Super Tuesday event will almost certainly affect the next few years of our lives, our economy, our children, our soldiers, the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, and if the crap really hits the fan the people of Iran. Despite the huge importance of this, the Nielsen ratings report that we'd frankly rather watch Hugh Laurie portray the hobbling, pain-killer-addicted House and regular Americans who've been deceived by their friends and families to believe they have talent on American Idol.
In total, Fox had 25.5 million viewers during the primary whereas ABC, CBS and NBC (who chose to carry the election) were only able to maintain the attention of 18.6 million viewers between them (5.3m, 6.1m, 7.2m respectively).
This is particularly relevant to recent class discussions regarding the disturbing levels of ignorance to public matters displayed in our citizenry .
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