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And BTW, while it may work for your agenda here to not buy Nielsen's numbers, it's okay - you can trust them.
And buying their numbers suits your agenda just fine, doesn't it? Actually, I was just going on what Nielsen put in the literature we got several years ago when we let them put a box on our TV set. They stated that their findings were extrapolated from statistical data gathered. They said that any error in their extrapolation tended to be on the high side. That would be what I meant by, "admittedly bloated."
And are you saying that if 'Passion of the Christ' (which, according to you, seems to be the only 'Hollyweird' creation regarding Christianity that isn't a 'twisted vision') was airing opposite 'Desperate Housewives' that it would clobber the wives in the ratings?
Considering that the broadcast networks are far too PC and far too anti-Christian to air The Passion of the Christ, it will likely never happen. However, since Passion did gross over $300 Million and is one of the biggest movies of recent times, it would not be completely unreasonable to suggest that it would probably clobber anything else broadcast opposite it.
In this case, the facts are clear: far more Americans chose to watch housewives cheat on their spouses (or even a repeat of 'The Simpsons' ) instead of a show about John Paul II. Sorry, but that's the truth.
Actually, they're anything but clear and the truth isn't in them. Once again, you are so immersed in the world of popular culture that the real alternative doesn't even occur to you. You assume that everyone else thinks like you. In my own little informal poll of Catholics I know (conservative and otherwise), the overwhelming majority said they had no interest in what Hollyweird had to say about John Paul and chose to do other things. This may come as a shock, but there are millions of Americans out there who don't need the television to tell them what to think. There are also millions out there who don't bother with the cultural wasteland that television has become.
There are several facts you cannot demonstrate from the data given. You cannot demonstrate that any significant number of people who chose not to watch the John Paul special chose to watch any other program instead. You cannot demonstrate anything concerning the reasons people chose not to watch the special that have nothing whatever to do with the moral compass of American society. And finally, you cannot demonstrate that the number of people who skipped the special because of a lack of morality proves anything significant about the morality of the general public. The only demonstrable fact in the story was that the special was a ratings flop. You and Behethland making the leap from that fact to some profound statement on American morality is pure, unadulterated, rhetorical fantasy.
And buying their numbers suits your agenda just fine, doesn't it? Actually, I was just going on what Nielsen put in the literature we got several years ago when we let them put a box on our TV set. They stated that their findings were extrapolated from statistical data gathered. They said that any error in their extrapolation tended to be on the high side. That would be what I meant by, "admittedly bloated."
And are you saying that if 'Passion of the Christ' (which, according to you, seems to be the only 'Hollyweird' creation regarding Christianity that isn't a 'twisted vision') was airing opposite 'Desperate Housewives' that it would clobber the wives in the ratings?
Considering that the broadcast networks are far too PC and far too anti-Christian to air The Passion of the Christ, it will likely never happen. However, since Passion did gross over $300 Million and is one of the biggest movies of recent times, it would not be completely unreasonable to suggest that it would probably clobber anything else broadcast opposite it.
In this case, the facts are clear: far more Americans chose to watch housewives cheat on their spouses (or even a repeat of 'The Simpsons' ) instead of a show about John Paul II. Sorry, but that's the truth.
Actually, they're anything but clear and the truth isn't in them. Once again, you are so immersed in the world of popular culture that the real alternative doesn't even occur to you. You assume that everyone else thinks like you. In my own little informal poll of Catholics I know (conservative and otherwise), the overwhelming majority said they had no interest in what Hollyweird had to say about John Paul and chose to do other things. This may come as a shock, but there are millions of Americans out there who don't need the television to tell them what to think. There are also millions out there who don't bother with the cultural wasteland that television has become.
There are several facts you cannot demonstrate from the data given. You cannot demonstrate that any significant number of people who chose not to watch the John Paul special chose to watch any other program instead. You cannot demonstrate anything concerning the reasons people chose not to watch the special that have nothing whatever to do with the moral compass of American society. And finally, you cannot demonstrate that the number of people who skipped the special because of a lack of morality proves anything significant about the morality of the general public. The only demonstrable fact in the story was that the special was a ratings flop. You and Behethland making the leap from that fact to some profound statement on American morality is pure, unadulterated, rhetorical fantasy.
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