Ratings

  • The secret to Rachel Maddow's ratings success

    It's all about Princeton professor star power. Go Tigers!
  • Forgotten casualties

    Mentally scarred by the horrors they've endured in Iraq, many returning U.S. soldiers say the military isn't giving them the help they deserve.
  • Why nobody watched the World Series

    Blame it on late games and regionalism -- not the great baseball. And has anybody checked the NBA ratings lately?
  • Why the World Series is going down the tubes (literally)

    Greedy, shortsighted owners and one-dimensional teams playing bad baseball add up to an event that nobody cares about.
  • CNN: Veering right and aiming low

    Digging through Gary Condit's tabloid trash and courting Rush Limbaugh, is the venerable all-news network playing catch-up to the Fox News Channel?
  • Destiny's double dribble

    What happens when a television network tries to entertain an arena full of basketball fans with platinum pop groups? The fans bite back.
  • The ratings game

    I was a post-teen Arbitron diarist -- and all I got was a lousy 4 bucks.
  • Trailers

    Our ever-hopeful filmgoer suggests what might turn us on this fall and winter, and what might make politicians mad. They could be the same things.
  • Anal-ize this

    As Hollywood comedies get coarse 'n' coarser, ratings ain't what they used to be.
  • NBA in disarray

    Come back, Mr. Jordan: The NBA Finals are in danger of going down as the lowest-rated playoffs since 1981, while couch potatoes turn off college games, too. What's wrong with hoops?
  • Free Bryant Gumbel!

    As "The Early Show" struggles for an audience, its host may be longing to escape.
  • The magic's gone

    What will the all-news networks do now that the McCain and Bradley dramas are over?
  • The consumer's always wrong

    Why else would visitors to consumer rating sites like Deja.com rank Rolling Rock the second-best beer and Alan Keyes the top presidential candidate?
  • We value your opinion -- really

    Epinions launches a ratings site with a twist: Users don't just rate products. They rate each other's opinions.
  • Extry! Extry! Getcha screen legends here!

    The American Film Institute's silly list of "50 Greatest Screen Legends" plunks that august body into the same leaky boat as the Letterman Top 10 list.
  • Media Circus: Totally naked book wrestling

    Pregnant lesbian strippers and unrepentant impotent bigamists debate the classics on Jerry Springer's Book Club!

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