On the other hand, from a societal point of view, and from a security/strength point of view, the division of our country on political lines is killing us.
I’d hate to see the media get into making “conservative” and “liberal” TV shows, it’s bad enough we seem to have our own unique news outlets giving us our own unique news.
I don’t WANT American to be two countries. I want an America where I can vehemently disagree with my liberal buddy, and then sit down and watch a good TV show without it turning into a political battle.
I agree with you, but I'm afraid that boat has left the dock, which is why I want to see those numbers. I'm betting that the networks already understand the partisan divide in television programming, and have been encouraging it, rather than ignoring it or fixing it.
I have a long-standing theorem that goes something like this - "Democrat voters are more impressionable than Republican voters and therefor more desirable by people who pay to advertise on broadcast and cable television".
It would go a long way to explaining a huge shift leftward in television programing the last 20 years. I'm not sure if you're old enough to remember F-Troop, or even Quincy, ME, if you are, or have seen them in reruns, do you ever remember discerning a hint of partisan politics in either of those shows?
It all started with All in the Family, and went south from there. Last year you couldn't watch a single program that didn't have a Bush joke in it. And now, you can't watch a single program that doesn't at some point extol the virtue of President Barack Obama. That's not an accident. I'm just curious if it's not an accident because of the leftward tilt of America's creative community, or is it something more economically oriented, or both?