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According to a report from AdAge, every single network drama that aired on Tuesday night experienced a double-digit decline in ratings. And aside from a decent showing from The Muppets, the report relays that there have been few bright spots to the start of this year's fall TV lineup.
[...] All told, cumulative viewership during "Premiere Week", as it's called, is down 8% compared to the same period a year-ago. More worrisome for TV networks is that viewership from the highly sought-after 18-24 demographic is down 20% year over year, with male viewership within that demographic falling by 24%.
Males in the 18-24 demographic are the most coveted in advertising because that's when studies show brand preferences are formed. 24% is a catastrophic decline for TV.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2015, @03:49PM
> Television has been just plain stupid for as long as I can remember. Archie Bunker, and his bigoted bullshit?
Sometimes I think you are doing a caricature of yourself. No one can honestly be that clueless, right?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @04:40PM
So - give us a few clues, alright?
Did you even read the wikipedia link I offered? Right there in black and white (no racism intended, I hope) it states that a SJW company employed these actors to highlight social issues of the time. The actor played the part of a highly bigoted white man who hated blacks, and looked down on almost everyone else, including Polacks and Degos. No matter who or what the actor was, no matter the intentions of the SJW executives, the CHARACTER was a bigoted asshole. In fact, I think that he was so much a bigoted asshole, that he embarrassed a few million real bigots enough to make them take stock of their bigotry.
So, now, you add a few insightful clues for all the rest of us, since you're so very smart.
Oh - wait - maybe I'm reading you wrong. Surely Archie wasn't one of your heroes, was he? Maybe you are the bigot that the show was aimed at? Did Archie embarrass you, or not?
Give us some clues, AC - or maybe you are Whiskey Fueled himself?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2015, @06:00PM
Wow, you are so amazingly disconnected from the real world that you can literally explain why All in the Family was brilliant social criticism using Archie Bunker as a foil but your take away from the very same words is that it was "just plain stupid." Holy crap! I never really believed that the "conservative mind" was different, but you are making a fantastic case for proving me wrong.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @07:39PM
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the "conservative mind" really is different than that of a liberal mind. You might read Vox Day's writing, beginning with 'SJW's always lie'. Sometimes, I'm surprised that the two can interbreed.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2015, @07:51PM
> Sorry to burst your bubble, but the "conservative mind" really is different than that of a liberal mind.
Anyone who thinks that a tv show which convinced millions of bigots to reconsider their bigotry was a bad thing is either insane or profoundly evil. There is no place in the world for someone like that.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @08:19PM
I might suggest that you go back and actually READ MY POSTS. Nowhere did I use the words "bad thing". The worst thing I said about the show is, it was so much mindless drivel. Like all other sitcoms, it's aimed at the Lowest Common Denominator. People with the IQ of a turnip could watch it and be amused. Most people with IQ's at least as high as a household pet have to use mental tricks to get down on that level. Pretty much everything that comes out of Hollyweird is aimed at that Lowest Common Denominator.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday September 27 2015, @07:11PM
Archie was no hero. What he was is a product of his time being forced to slowly evolve and loath to admit it. Likewise, he was no villain.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @07:41PM
Not a villian - just an obnoxious old asshole. I saw a lot of Archie in my own father, and many of the people around me as I was growing up. They weren't villians, but many of them were most definitely assholes.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2015, @07:53PM
Dude, you are an Archie Bunker for the modern day.
Just like all those assholes couldn't recognize their own asshole nature that Archie illustrated back then, neither can you now.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @08:14PM
It's just so thrilling to see my devoted fan club hanging on my every word.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 28 2015, @02:14PM
By using "SJW" to refer to an era well before Tumblr and Twitter existed you're just cheapening it and proving the real SJWs right when they claim it's nothing but a snarl word used to shut down discussion.
Words have meanings, try learning them.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 28 2015, @02:24PM
What nonsense. The phenomenon wasn't invented on Tumblr or Twitter. SJW's have existed since the day of that Sanger broad, who wanted abortion legalized, so that she could get rid of the "weeds of humanity". What do you think, the new generation INVENTED social justice ideals? Remember Marx? Google Karl Marx.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.