This has been a tough year for VIACON -- the Opie and Anthony fine, the problems with Howard Stern, The Reagans, Ms. Boob, the Spike TV/Spike Lee brouhaha, the resignation of the LEGENDARY Mel Karmazin, the spin-off of the suddenly obsolete Blockbuster, continuing woes at Paramount -- and through it all, like the flag over Ft. McHenry, SUMNER'S STILL THERE. What's one more problem when you've got ATTITUDE? (Never mind that you merely BOUGHT it.) Let us not forget that SUMNER'S as hard-core a liberal Democrat as they come, which means he could well be nodding at Danno's fibs in agreement, provided he doesn't nod off first.
No, we're talking two IMMORTALS. Because of SUMNER, DANNO STAYS.
P. S. Advertiser boycotts WILL NOT WORK. If the recent history of American commercial television says something, it's that ADVERTISERS WILL SPONSOR ANYTHING except the un-PC or after a major calamity. Most of corporate America's CEOs don't know what the heck they're sponsoring, and they want to keep it that way. And more than a few of their ad-vice-president factotums have come to view exercising good judgment as CENSORSHIP, never mind that they can do some heavy-duty censoring of their audience's discontent just by exercising the power of their purse.
You are wrong. Contacting advertisers DOES WORK
see the Dixie Chix, Lipton dropping them.
see CBS's thereagans, advertisers fled in droves.
It works.
We need to write ALL OF RATHERS SPONSORS.