The Wasteland Revisited

The Wasteland RevisitedI've been giving some thought to the matter of majorities. The networks are always talking about the majority audiences for whom they have to program, and I decided to try to figure out who they are.I first thought the networks meant everybody under 28 years of age--because that's the majority of the American people. But CBS canceled the Smothers Brothers' show, which appealed principally to that audience, so it must have a different majority in mind. I thought about blue-...