HomeschoolrsRUs
04-03-2005, 11:24 PM
Moses vs. 'Desperate Housewives'
Brent Bozell
April 2, 2005
It's a sign of our times, in more ways than one. ABC ended its Palm Sunday or Easter Sunday tradition of airing the classic 1956 film "The Ten Commandments" since its length might cut into the network's big, depraved hit "Desperate Housewives."
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Sadly, the Moses-shoving gambit didn't cause any headaches for Team Disney. Among the 18- to 49-year-olds ABC ravenously desires, the new Easter episode of "Desperate Housewives" beat CBS, NBC, Fox and WB combined and was the most watched program in the country on Easter -- more than 24 million Americans -- and none of the troubled yet saucy suburbanites was swallowed up by the Red Sea as a sign of God's displeasure. Hollywood programmers no doubt would prefer to suggest that people watch middle-aged vixens with their plastic-surgery alterations dancing before the golden calf of hedonism over stuffy, lecturing old Moses.
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At least we don't have three nights a week of "Desperate Housewives" yet -- coming soon, "Desperate Housewives, Miami"?
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This morning, I heard from an outraged parent. "Can anyone tell me," he e-mailed, "why my 9-year-old watching ABC Family Channel at approximately 12:30 EST today needs to see and be exposed to explicit promos for 'Desperate Housewives'?"
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For example, New York Times columnist Frank Rich recently compared decency campaigners to the Salem witch-hunters and the Taliban, a religiously kooky minority holding America hostage: "At a certain point -- and we seem to be at that point -- fear takes over, allowing a mob to bully the majority over the short term." But who's "bullying" who? Who dishes out sleaze, and who has to live with it? And who is the majority?
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Let us remember once again than in today's incredibly fragmented television world, the ABC audience number hailed as "gigantic," 24 million Americans, is less than 10 percent of our estimated population of 290 million, lest anyone want to draw grand political conclusions about our culture.
The rest of this article found here: Brent Bozell: Moses vs. 'Desperate Housewives' (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/bb20050402.shtml)
Brent Bozell
April 2, 2005
It's a sign of our times, in more ways than one. ABC ended its Palm Sunday or Easter Sunday tradition of airing the classic 1956 film "The Ten Commandments" since its length might cut into the network's big, depraved hit "Desperate Housewives."
[ SNIP, SNIP ]
Sadly, the Moses-shoving gambit didn't cause any headaches for Team Disney. Among the 18- to 49-year-olds ABC ravenously desires, the new Easter episode of "Desperate Housewives" beat CBS, NBC, Fox and WB combined and was the most watched program in the country on Easter -- more than 24 million Americans -- and none of the troubled yet saucy suburbanites was swallowed up by the Red Sea as a sign of God's displeasure. Hollywood programmers no doubt would prefer to suggest that people watch middle-aged vixens with their plastic-surgery alterations dancing before the golden calf of hedonism over stuffy, lecturing old Moses.
[ SNIP, SNIP]
At least we don't have three nights a week of "Desperate Housewives" yet -- coming soon, "Desperate Housewives, Miami"?
[ SNIP, SNIP ]
This morning, I heard from an outraged parent. "Can anyone tell me," he e-mailed, "why my 9-year-old watching ABC Family Channel at approximately 12:30 EST today needs to see and be exposed to explicit promos for 'Desperate Housewives'?"
[ SNIP, SNIP ]
For example, New York Times columnist Frank Rich recently compared decency campaigners to the Salem witch-hunters and the Taliban, a religiously kooky minority holding America hostage: "At a certain point -- and we seem to be at that point -- fear takes over, allowing a mob to bully the majority over the short term." But who's "bullying" who? Who dishes out sleaze, and who has to live with it? And who is the majority?
[ SNIP, SNIP ]
Let us remember once again than in today's incredibly fragmented television world, the ABC audience number hailed as "gigantic," 24 million Americans, is less than 10 percent of our estimated population of 290 million, lest anyone want to draw grand political conclusions about our culture.
The rest of this article found here: Brent Bozell: Moses vs. 'Desperate Housewives' (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brentbozell/bb20050402.shtml)