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Ant writes "This long New York Times article (10 pages; no registration required) reports on the mismeasure of television (TV)." From the article: "One of the great contradictions of modern American life is that almost everyone watches TV while almost no one agrees anymore about what it really means to watch television....when it comes to figuring out how many of us are watching these shows, and whether we're paying attention while we're watching and even whether we're actually noticing the advertisements among the shows we may or may not be watching -- well, this is where things get tricky..."
Do you mean the original show, or the remake? If the remake, I have no idea why people like that show. I mean it is really bad Sci Fi, they took a great show, and then just basically cut it to shreads and made a whole new show out of it with bad plots and even badder acting.
The only way the new Battlestar Galactica can get worse, is if they made it a reality show.
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This is just part of the bush administration anti-science agenda.
Of course if you have a "faith-based" agenda, the bush administration has oodles of federal funding available for you!
I can just see it now. creationist "science" tv, brought to you by a grant from the federal government.