At 12:35 PM 1/8/01 -0800, Matt wrote:
> Some shows don't even
>have to do that much. For example, "Ellen" left the air because of
>the wave of protest when its lead actress "came out of the closet".
Sorry, but you are way off the deep end here. Ellen was never doing very
well ratings-wise. The coming out of the closet produced a ratings boomlet
for the show, that staved off its eventual demise by a year or so. In that
sense, it was a ratings coup.
Obviously, the people offended by such things were never watching Ellen in
the first place.
JDG
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