AP television writer Frazier Moore (full disclosure: we were at the University of Georgia in J-school at the same time) writes about the cancellation of “Law and Order” today:
Maybe there weren’t enough fans (this season, viewership has averaged 7.3 million viewers, the show’s lowest ever and less than half the number at its height a decade ago). Maybe the show was too expensive to produce. Maybe NBC just thought it was too old.
Maybe, Frazier, it was the hard-left turn the show took a few years ago that turned viewers off. Liberals don’t notice plot lines that demonize the right and run down America. They think it’s just real life being displayed bravely and accurately on television.
I don’t know whether all the mainstream media writers intentionally left out this factor or that it simply never occurred to them. Either way, it’s another example of the public being ill-served by the media.
