<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1141" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>that's one way to look at it, doug.  and probably right.   yet, the war news programs really are worse than American Idol, sitcoms and Law and Order.   </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>news?   did i say "news"?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>R</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #008000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dhenwood@panix.com href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">Doug Henwood</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 02, 2003 12:22 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [lbo-talk] what, me worry?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>The Washington Post - April 2, 2003, page C7<BR><BR>The TV Column<BR>Viewers Put the War on the Back Burner<BR><BR>By Lisa de Moraes<BR>Wednesday, April 2, 2003; Page C07<BR><BR>War-weary viewers made Fox's "American Idol" their first choice last<BR>week. But two full nights' worth of "Law & Order" plus two nights of<BR>Thursday's sitcoms landed NBC in the lead spot among networks. Not a<BR>single news program cracked the prime-time Top 10.<BR><BR>[rest: <<A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6566-2003Apr1.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6566-2003Apr1.html</A>><BR><BR>----<BR><BR>Pew Research Center<BR><<A href="http://people-press.org/reports/print.php3?PageID=692">http://people-press.org/reports/print.php3?PageID=692</A>><BR><BR><BR>Question PRC11a:  "I'd like to ask you a few questions about how you<BR>feel when you are watching coverage of the war on TV.  For each<BR>statement that I read tell me if you strongly agree, agree, disagree or<BR>strongly disagree.  [ROTATE. READ STATEMENT.]<BR><BR>a. I can't stop watching news about the war."<BR><BR>Percent Disagree<BR>March 25-27, 2003 - 57%<BR>March 23-24, 2003 - 55<BR>March 20-22, 2003 - 57<BR>Mid-October, 2001 - 47<BR>Mid-September, 2001 - 34<BR><BR>Percent Agree<BR>March 25-27, 2003 - 41%<BR>March 23-24, 2003 - 42<BR>March 20-22, 2003 - 39<BR>Mid-October, 2001 - 49<BR>Mid-September, 2001 - 63<BR>___________________________________<BR><A href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>