Wednesday, September 14, 2005

KATRINA BENEFIT PLAYS TO EMPTY ROOMS

Despite being on twenty nine networks, the US main telethon to aid Hurricane Katrina victims managed to pull just 24 million viewers - which is still enough to make it the most-watched programme on US television last week. Although it won't be number one rated, as, erm, the Nielsen ratings don't count programmes without adverts as proper shows.

The low turnout is probably explained by the telethon being a bit redundant - as we've observed previously, if the site of centenarians being bundled from their homes in bedsheets after a week of having liquid shitty poison swirling round your ankles isn't enough to get you to donate, Mariah Carey emoting is hardly going to do it.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Amen! I live in New Orleans and the last thing I wanted to watch was celebrities acting like they cared more than other people do.

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