Posted 5:57 PM by Gene

Speaking of the CURE, what happens if the ratings go up as much as they did for the playoffs -- say 20 percent? That means an audience of about 120 million. I know how the job-hunting show-biz and advertising hacks will react -- with the $10 BILLION gag; there'll be nearly as much dancing on the desks as there was in the Washington bureaus with His Omnipotence. Someone should ask tough questions of Nielsen. Why this sudden boost? No one will ask. People have stopped questioning TV ratings the way they did back when decent shows got canceled with audiences of 30 million. I am convinced A. C. is tweaking the numbers in part as a patriotic gesture -- much as the BOND-RATING FIRMS tweaked their triple-A's on toxic securities. That Nielsen didn't move zillions for fraud does not lessen the fraud.

And let us not forget that even as the NFL cures cancer most of the world is sound asleep to the discovery.