Monday, January 10, 2005

Jerry Springer

Not much to say on this except to note that only 1.7m people watched it. Given the test card used to have some viewers, we can safely assumed less people than this watched it properly. The proportion of these who were under 16 cannot be known, but must have been small given the lateness of transmission, so we can say that the silly man from Christian Voice who said:

"The damage that must have done to impressionable young people is incalculable."

is right, but only literally so.