Posted 2:55 PM by Gene

Look Crainiacs, we know you'd like your clien -- readers to sponsor anything and everything on television, because then it wouldn't make your print rag look like an anorexic model. But there's no cute prose to get around this one:

In a finding that could be frightening for a major advertiser, the Alliance [for Family Entertainment] found 63% of viewers claiming advertisers are ultimately responsible for the content that is on TV. In 2009, only 43% of viewers agreed with that notion.

We repeat for the ten trillionth time: the public is not that stupid. Not only is it agitated by Corporate America financing anything television, it realizes its money is fungible and thus finances water-cooler projects. We may add that news hacks increasingly love to boast of 2 MILLION WATCH THE DAILY SHOW!!!!! because in the back of their hermetically-sealed reinforced-concrete skulls they know it's a drop in our population bucket -- and such uniformly small numbers almost across the board mean people may finally be actively avoiding television. We submit the success of Netflix and the more recent cable-cutting are in no small way a reflection of it. The small numbers should also disprove the hacks' (like BRIAN'S) favorite excuse that people say they hate sex-'n'-violence but...but they're NOT watching it.

The idiot MUG Whitman proved politicians waste money financing television. When do our superiors in Corporate America finally get the message?

P. S. And BRIAN (whose snideness earns A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD!) links to this article about SLIME's chief soon-to-be-retiring chief ad SALESMAN!!!!! on FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!, which pretty well summarizes how much people like him have to do with the plebeians:

Ad sales is still famous for the perks.

When I go to football or baseball games I usually have a private bathroom.

ZERO.